Httperf

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]

References

^ Michael Kruckenberg, Jay Pipes (2005). "Benchmarking and Profiling". Pro MySQL. Apress. pp. 216–7. ISBN 1-59059-505-X.
^ Xueyan Tang (2005). Web content delivery. springer.jp. pp. 317–321. ISBN 0-387-24356-9.

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 [1]. 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

Processing benchmarks

Concepts

Free software
Proprietary software
Performance per watt
Data center infrastructure efficiency
Giga-updates per second (memory)
CPU power dissipation

Organizations

BAPCo consortium
EEMBC
Futuremark
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

Processor

Floating-point unit (FLOPS)	SPECfp LINPACK LAPACK Prime95 Super PI SuperPrime Whetstone IBM iSeries benchmarks (Computational Intensive Workload)
Integer (ALU)	Dhrystone Fhourstones SPECint CoreMark
Digital signal processor (DSP)	BTDi
Graphics processing unit (GPU)	BRL-CAD
Parallel computing	DEISA Benchmark Suite Livermore loops NAS Parallel Benchmarks HPC Challenge Benchmark Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC)

Peripherals

Network	BreakingPoint Systems SUPS
Filesystems and storage	Bonnie++ HD Tach IOzone Diskspd
Computer memory	BSS Random Access benchmark HPC Challenge Random Memory Access
Input/output	Iometer Ioblazer IBM iSeries benchmarks (Commercial Processing Workload)

Computer system (entire)

Hierarchical INTegration (HINT)
NBench (CPU, memory)

Energy consumption

Software

JavaScript engine	Browser speed test
Cryptography	Cycles per byte
Multiuser system	SDET AIM Multiuser Benchmark
Virtual machine	VMmark SPECvirt
Physics engine	Physics Abstraction Layer API Bench
Recursion performance	Tak (function)
Database transactions	TATP Benchmark Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX) YCSB (NoSQL)
Web server benchmarking	Apache JMeter Curl-loader httperf OpenSTA TPC-W Tsung
X Window System	Xmark93