Httperf Explained

In computing httperf (pronounced h-t-t-perf) is a testing tool to measure the performance of web servers. It was originally developed by David Mosberger and other staff at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories.^[1]

httperf can test HTTP pipelining workloads.^[2]

Bibliography

• Webの負荷テストに使えるフリーソフトウェア, ITmedia
• D. Mosberger and T. Jin. httperf: A Tool for Measuring Web Server Performance http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/wisp98/httperf.pdf. Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 26, Number 3, December 1998, 31-37. (Originally appeared in Proceedings of the 1998 Internet Server Performance Workshop, June 1998, 59-67.)

External links

• httperf github repository

Notes and References

1. Book: Pro MySQL . Michael Kruckenberg, Jay Pipes . Apress . 2005 . Benchmarking and Profiling . 216–7 . 1-59059-505-X .
2. Book: Web content delivery . Xueyan Tang . . 2005 . 0-387-24356-9 . 317–321 .