Feature Request: Number of requests option

[smw1218]

For my purposes, I would like to use the old ab -n option to set a specific number of requests rather than duration. It would be mutually exclusive of -d.

[gbrail]

Interesting -- long ago when I started this project I was trying to get away from that, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful.

Can you explain your use case?

And how important is it that the count be exact, versus approximate (obviously the final statistics will be based on actual data.)

I'm asking because apib is multi-threaded so if we want to ensure that all threads stop after the exact same number of requests then we have to handle things differently then if the number of requests is more of a suggestion.

[smw1218]

The exact counts aren't too important. I'm looking for a reasonably valid number of requests for the statistics so there's probably other ways to skin that cat. I'm automating a large number of apib runs across many or my API's URLs. I've hard-coded -d 5, but some requests are slow and I end up with too few requests to trust the stats.

My actual goal is to perform the minimum number of requests to get reasonable repeatability on the test. There's probably some sophisticated statistical method to do it, but it would likely be even harder to coordinate in a multi-threaded environment. Having the -n would just be another tool to help on this.

[gbrail]

OK -- that sounds like something fun to look in to then!

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