I'm confused. Can somebody help me shed some light on this.

I created a new droplet and my ApacheBench(marks) aren't on par with my previous Droplet. It always seems to stall on the last set of requests. I've done 400, 500, and 300 -- all of them with the same results: stalls on the final 100 set before finishing resulting in a > 7 second total test run... That's not right.

ab -n 500 -c 100 http://107.170.246.53/

Can somebody help me shed some light as to why?

If it was a Droplet resources, 300 should have worked given 500 stalled after completing 400. This was not the case.

I have a second Droplet, tier two, and it doesn't exhibit this.

Test Results:

gp$ ab -n 500 -c 100 http://107.170.246.53/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 107.170.246.53 (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests  (stalls here before completing 500)
Completed 500 requests
Finished 500 requests


Server Software:        lighttpd/1.4.33
Server Hostname:        107.170.246.53
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        2886 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   7.945 seconds
Complete requests:      500
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1535948 bytes
HTML transferred:       1444265 bytes
Requests per second:    62.93 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1588.995 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       15.890 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          188.79 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       13   24   4.3     23      37
Processing:    30  276 1145.3    101    7920
Waiting:       27  275 1145.3    100    7919
Total:         48  300 1146.4    124    7944

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    124
  66%    133
  75%    145
  80%    153
  90%    160
  95%    187
  98%   7928
  99%   7936
 100%   7944 (longest request)

hermes:tracking gp$ ab -n 300 -c 100 http://107.170.246.53/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 107.170.246.53 (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests (stalls here, before completing 300)
Completed 300 requests
Finished 300 requests


Server Software:        lighttpd/1.4.33
Server Hostname:        107.170.246.53
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        2886 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   7.881 seconds
Complete requests:      300
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      920700 bytes
HTML transferred:       865800 bytes
Requests per second:    38.07 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       2626.977 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       26.270 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          114.09 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       17   25   5.2     23      42
Processing:    29  375 1452.0     96    7850
Waiting:       26  374 1451.9     96    7849
Total:         47  399 1453.6    119    7880

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    119
  66%    125
  75%    127
  80%    129
  90%    144
  95%    167
  98%   7872
  99%   7878
 100%   7880 (longest request)