OlegDB OlegDB Blog Downloads FAQ Docs Community Content right_side_nav Grid 2014-04-12 by Quinlan Pfiffer Comments Today at Proleg Labs™ we're going to discuss the awesome bechmarking tool wrk . wrk is a badass little HTTP stress testing utility written by a mysterious open-source do-gooders . I'm gonna run through how we torture OlegDB with it to make sure everything is working in an acceptable fashion. Building and installing wrk is outside the scope of this article, but it's not hard. You just need to do your standard make && make install dance and you'll do fine. Once you have your wrk executable handy, we can get started. On my particular machine, I like to test with these settings: $ ./wrk -t8 -c400 -d30s http://localhost:8080/test This requires a little explanation. -t8 is the number of threads to use. I've got eight cores, lets use eight threads...