WEBBENCH(1)WEBBENCH(1)NAMEwebbench - simple forking web benchmark
SYNOPSISwebbench [options] URL
AUTHOR
This program and manual page was written by Radim Kolar, for the
Supreme Personality of Godhead (but may be used by others).
DESCRIPTIONwebbench is simple program for benchmarking HTTP servers or any other
servers, which can be accessed via HTTP proxy. Unlike others bench‐
marks, webbench uses multiple processes for simulating traffic gener‐
ated by multiple users. This allows better operating on SMP systems and
on systems with slow or buggy implementation of select().
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options are
included below.
-?, -h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-f, --force
Do not wait for any response from server. Close connection after
request is send. This option produce quite a good denial of ser‐
vice attack.
-9, --http09
Use HTTP/0.9 protocol, if possible.
-1, --http10
Use HTTP/1.0 protocol, if possible.
-2, --http11
Use HTTP/1.1 protocol (without Keep-Alive ), if possible.
-r, --reload
Forces proxy to reload document. If proxy is not set, option has
no effect.
-t, --time <n>
Run benchmark for <n> seconds. Default value is 30.
-p, --proxy <server:port>
Send request via proxy server. Needed for supporting others pro‐
tocols than HTTP.
--get Use GET request method.
--head Use HEAD request method.
--options
Use OPTIONS request method.
--trace
Use TRACE request method.
-c, --clients <n>
Use <n> multiple clients for benchmark. Default value is 1.
EXIT STATUS
0 - sucess
1 - benchmark failed, can not connect to server
2 - bad command line argument(s)
3 - internal error, i.e. fork failed
TODO
Include support for using Keep-Alive HTTP/1.1 connections.
COPYING
Webbench is distributed under GPL. Copyright 1997-2004 Radim Kolar
(hsn@netmag.cz). UNIX sockets code taken from popclient 1.5 4/1/94
public domain code, created by Virginia Tech Computing Center. This
man page is public domain.
14 Jan 2004 WEBBENCH(1)
