--- ab.c.orig	2011-01-15 02:12:47.000000000 +0000
+++ ab.c.orig	2011-01-25 01:02:22.000000000 +0000
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ 
     char cbuff[CBUFFSIZE];      /* a buffer to store server response header */
     int cbx;                    /* offset in cbuffer */
     int keepalive;              /* non-zero if a keep-alive request */
+    int kasent;                 /* keep-alive requests sent by this connection */
     int gotheader;              /* non-zero if we have the entire header in
                                  * cbuff */
     apr_time_t start,           /* Start of connection */
@@ -282,6 +283,7 @@ 
 int confidence = 1;     /* Show confidence estimator and warnings */
 int tlimit = 0;         /* time limit in secs */
 int keepalive = 0;      /* try and do keepalive connections */
+int maxkarequests = 0;  /* max requests to send per keep-alive connection */
 int windowsize = 0;     /* we use the OS default window size */
 char servername[1024];  /* name that server reports */
 char *hostname;         /* host name from URL */
@@ -1154,6 +1156,7 @@ 
     c->read = 0;
     c->bread = 0;
     c->keepalive = 0;
+    c->kasent = 0;
     c->cbx = 0;
     c->gotheader = 0;
     c->rwrite = 0;
@@ -1516,6 +1519,13 @@ 
             bad++;
             err_length++;
         }
+        /* implement max requests per keep-alive connection */
+        c->kasent++;
+        if ( keepalive && maxkarequests && c->kasent == maxkarequests ) {
+            doneka++;
+            close_connection(c);
+            return;
+        } else
         if (done < requests) {
             struct data *s = &stats[done++];
             doneka++;
@@ -1868,6 +1878,7 @@ 
     fprintf(stderr, "    -X proxy:port   Proxyserver and port number to use\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "    -V              Print version number and exit\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "    -k              Use HTTP KeepAlive feature\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "    -m count        Maximum of requests per KeepAlive connection\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "    -d              Do not show percentiles served table.\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "    -S              Do not show confidence estimators and warnings.\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "    -g filename     Output collected data to gnuplot format file.\n");
@@ -2040,7 +2051,7 @@ 
 #endif
 
     apr_getopt_init(&opt, cntxt, argc, argv);
-    while ((status = apr_getopt(opt, "n:c:t:b:T:p:u:v:rkVhwix:y:z:C:H:P:A:g:X:de:Sq"
+    while ((status = apr_getopt(opt, "n:c:t:b:T:p:u:v:rkVhwix:y:z:C:H:P:A:g:X:de:Sqm:"
 #ifdef USE_SSL
             "Z:f:"
 #endif
@@ -2055,6 +2066,9 @@ 
             case 'k':
                 keepalive = 1;
                 break;
+            case 'm':
+                maxkarequests = atoi(optarg);
+                break;
             case 'q':
                 heartbeatres = 0;
                 break;