Useful benchmarking tools

The following are some of the commonly used benchmarking tools:

• httperf

  A useful tool, capable of doing everything from simple requests for a single file to simulating client sessions. Available from: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html

• Apache Bench

  A simple benchmarking tool, distributed with the Apache Web Server. The source is in the file src/support/ab.c in the Apache source tree.

• Autobench

  A Perl script for automating a series of httperf tests against the same server (or a pair of servers). It parses the output of httperf, and summarises the results of the tests in a CSV or TSV file that can be imported directly into a spreadsheet for further analysis/graphing. Available from: http://www.xenoclast.org/autobench/