On 23/11/2008, at 1:17 PM, Dave Cheney wrote: > c. nginx or apache chose to use chunked encoding to send such a > small file Scratch that, AB uses HTTP/1.0 by default which prohibits chunked encoding. Could you please run your test again, say ab -n 1000 -c 20 http://site/url and post the full results. Cheers Dave