We get this error when using concurrent connections over 300 or so
ab -n 250000 -c 500 someserver.zyz.com 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 someserver.xyz.com (be patient) Completed 25000 requests apr_socket_recv: Connection reset by peer (104) Total of 36012 requests completed However we do not seem to have a problem when using httperf.