diff --git a/bin/test/perftest1.pl b/bin/test/perftest1.pl
index 83d7f392..7c6c470e 100755
--- a/bin/test/perftest1.pl
+++ b/bin/test/perftest1.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
-
+use lib '../../';
 use strict;
 use Time::HiRes qw( usleep ualarm gettimeofday tv_interval );
 use PVE::API2Client;
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ my $hostname = PVE::INotify::read_file("hostname");
 # but we can simply create a ticket if we are root
 my $ticket = PVE::AccessControl::assemble_ticket('root@pam');
 
-my $wcount = 4;
-my $qcount = 500;
+my $wcount = 1;
+my $qcount = 100;
 
 sub test_rpc {
     my ($host) = @_;
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ sub run_tests {
     print "$host: $tpq ms per query\n";
 }
 
-# TODO: Apache is much slower, why? 
+# TODO: Apache is much slower, why? (SSL?) 
 
 run_tests("localhost"); # test 'pvedaemon'
 
diff --git a/bin/test/perftest2.pl b/bin/test/perftest2.pl
index 09814598..d7911e96 100755
--- a/bin/test/perftest2.pl
+++ b/bin/test/perftest2.pl
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ my $hostname = PVE::INotify::read_file("hostname");
 # but we can simply create a ticket if we are root
 my $ticket = PVE::AccessControl::assemble_ticket('root@pam');
 
-
 my $cmd = "ab -c 2 -n 1000 -C 'PVEAuthCookie=$ticket'  https://$hostname:8006/api2/json";
 print "$cmd\n";
 system($cmd) == 0 || die "command failed - $!\n";
diff --git a/bin/test/perftest3.pl b/bin/test/perftest3.pl
index bc749a62..f1f84b8a 100755
--- a/bin/test/perftest3.pl
+++ b/bin/test/perftest3.pl
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ my $hostname = PVE::INotify::read_file("hostname");
 # but we can simply create a ticket if we are root
 my $ticket = PVE::AccessControl::assemble_ticket('root@pam');
 
-my $wcount = 2;
+my $wcount = 1;
 my $qcount = 100;
 
 sub test_rpc {
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ sub test_rpc {
     for (my $i = 0; $i < $qcount; $i++) {
 	eval {
 	    my ($page, $response, %reply_headers)
-                = get_https($hostname, 8006, '/api2/json',   
+                = get_https($host, 8006, '/api2/json',   
                        make_headers(Cookie => "PVEAuthCookie=$ticket"));
 	    die "$response\n" if $response !~ m/200 OK/;
 	};
@@ -65,4 +65,6 @@ sub run_tests {
     print "$host: $tpq ms per query\n";
 }
 
+# why is this faster than LWP::UserAgent?
+
 run_tests($hostname); # test 'apache'