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Httperf

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ17045036 ↗
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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.

httperf can test HTTP pipelining workloads.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Httperf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.