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A Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance: httperf


httperf---A Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance

httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a
flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for
measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not on
implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust,
high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro-
and macro-level benchmarks. The three distinguishing characteristics
of httperf are its robustness, which includes the ability to generate
and sustain server overload, support for the HTTP/1.1 protocol, and
its extensibility to new workload generators and performance
measurements. 

The source code is available from:

ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/httperf/

The newest release is version 0.8. There are two major changes with
this release:

- Martin Arlitt contributed support for testing web servers via SSL
  (Secure Socket Layer).  Please see the README included as part of
  the httperf distribution for details.

- To encourage and faciliate the sharing of enhancements to httperf,
  the license has been changed to the GNU General Public License.

Apart from these changes, various bug fixes and improvements have been
applied.  In particular, httperf now uses the GNU "autoconf" scheme to
automatically configure httperf for the system it is being built on.
This should make it easier to port httperf to other UNIX-like
platforms.  At present, httperf is known to work on Linux and HP-UX.
To members of COSC/EEE research group on networks, 
COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic simulation, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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