Has anyone seen this? Having checked everything possible short of debugging ab itself, I don't have a clue.
$ ./ab http://127.0.0.1:4874/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.121.2.1 $> apache-2.0 Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)...apr_poll: The timeout specified has expired (70007) While curl, fetch, wget, telnet all work just fine for that same url. This happens on Linux RH 9.0, and FreeBSD 5.1-STABLE, but not on FreeBSD 4.8 or my OS X box. The server in all cases is httpd-2.0.47. Grisha