ab (Apache) benchmark question | time-out error

Greetings -

I'm running Apache 2.0.47 with mod_ssl/2.0.47, PHP/4.3.2 and OpenSSL/0.9.7b,
under RH GNU/Linux 7.3. I had periodically been using the Apache benchmark
utility (ab) without incident, until recently. Now, when I run ab, using

ab -n 10 http://host.name.here.com

<or any other ab flags)

I get the following error message:

Benchmarking host.name.here (be patient)...apr_poll: The timeout specified has
expired (70007)

Can anyone help me figure out what is going on? I haven't made any changes to
the system, other than the usual RH updates. If it matters, the version info for
ab on my system is:

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.121.2.1 $> apache-2.0


Thanks in advance...

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:55:14 -0400, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu>
wrote:

>Greetings -
>
>I'm running Apache 2.0.47 with mod_ssl/2.0.47, PHP/4.3.2 and OpenSSL/0.9.7b,
>under RH GNU/Linux 7.3. I had periodically been using the Apache benchmark
>utility (ab) without incident, until recently. Now, when I run ab, using
>
>ab -n 10 http://host.name.here.com
>
><or any other ab flags)
>
>I get the following error message:
>
>Benchmarking host.name.here (be patient)...apr_poll: The timeout specified has
>expired (70007)
>
>Can anyone help me figure out what is going on? I haven't made any changes to
>the system, other than the usual RH updates. If it matters, the version info for
>ab on my system is:
>
>This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.121.2.1 $> apache-2.0

Tried several things, including tweaking (or trying to) the 'timeout' settings -
still no luck. ab absolutely refuses to work (and yet, my web server chugs along
very nicely).

Puzzling - about all I can think of is that is has something to do the php
module I'm loading dynamically (purely a guess).

Suggestions/ideas still welcomed.

Gave up - switched to httperf (works fine on my box).