Load testing nginx inside AWS
- by andy
I'm trying to load test nginx running on AWS. I need to try to optimise it to handle 1Gbps of inbound traffic.
Currently I've got it to peak at 85Mbit/s by running nginx on an m1.large with 4 other machines hitting it by using ab with -i (for head requests) -k (keepalives) -r (ignore failed requests) -n 500000 -c 20000.
I'm struggling to…