$Id: README 94589 2011-10-05 13:46:06Z johnnyw $

http_tester
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This is the http_tester suite, an ACE based HTTP benchmarking tool,
used to evaluate the performance of JAWS and other HTTP servers.

Usage
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To use the http_tester, you need to use a config file "infile", which
consists of a list of experiments, one on each line. http_tester logs
output data in the "outfile".

Usage: http_tester infile outfile

Experiments
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Each experiment consists of several space-delimited compulsory
fields, as follows:

experiment_id (string)
total_number_of_requests (integer)
request_rate (float)
url1 (first URL)
p1 (probability of requesting the first URL)
url2 (second URL)
p2 (probability of requesting the second URL)
url3 (third URL)
p3 (probability of requesting the third URL)
TCP_NODELAY (boolean, 1 == TCP_NODELAY is set)
SOCKET_RECV_BUFSIZ (usually 65536)

URLS must be of the form:

http://www.cs.wustl.edu:8888/~sumedh/index.html

(the port number is required, im making it optional in the next version).

Please see the sample file "config", for an example.

Output file
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The output file consists of the following space delimited fields:

Experiment Id (string)
Average throughput of connection (float)
Average latency of connection (float)
Maximum number of active connections at any given time (int)


Sumedh Mungee
<sumedh@cs.wustl.edu>
