How do you calculate requests?

[paul-uz]

I see options for connections and duration, both of which are 10, giving approx 3k requests in total on my laptop.

How can i dial ths numbers in to give for example ~1mil requests over 1 minute?

[mcollina]

Try with -c 100 -p 10

[paul-uz]

what does the -p do exactly?

[paul-uz]

This gave me about 4k requests over 10s btw, bit shy of 1mil over 1 minute

[mcollina]

The readme contains all the options, what's not clear?

autocannon saturates all the connections it uses. If you want to generate a certain amount of load independently of the server responding, you need to use ab.