---
name: "gatling-bench"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gatling"
version: "0.13-6.1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gatling-bench"
---

# gatling-bench(1)

http benchmark

## NAME

bench - http benchmark

## SYNOPSIS

**bench \[-n requests\] \[-c concurrency\] \[-t timeout\] \[-k\] \[-K count\]**\
         **\[-C cookie-file\] \[http://\]host\[:port\]/uri**

## DESCRIPTION

**bench is a HTTP benchmark program that can fetch the same URL over and** **over again, or fetch several URLs (coming in from stdin).**

**If you specify a URL on the command line, this URL will be fetch many** **times (specify with -n, default: 10000) with several connections open in** **parallen (specify with -c, default: 10).**

**You can specify a timeout (per request) in seconds with -t.**

**The -k switch activates keep-alive mode.  In keep-alive mode, the TCP** **connection is not closed between requests.  You also have to specify how** **many HTTP requests can go over one TCP connection with -K.**

**bench can also send one HTTP cookie per connection, as specified using a** **cookie file.  The cookie file is read line by line, and each request** **gets the next line inserted into it.  So each line should look something** **like this:**

  **Cookie: foo=bar**

**If the end of the file is reached, bench restarts it at the beginning.**

## AUTHOR

**Initially written by Felix von Leitner \<felix-gatling@fefe.de\>.**

## LICENSE

**GPLv2 (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)**