One role for workload generation is as a means for understanding how servers and
networks respond to variation in load. This enables management and capacity planning …

The widespread use of the World Wide Web and related applications places interesting
performance demands on network servers. The ability to measure the effect of these …

Abstract The World Wide Web and its related applications place substantial performance
demands on network servers. The ability to measure the effect of these demands is …

Server performance has become a crucial issue for improving the overall performance of the
World-Wide Web. This paper describes Webmonitor, a tool for evaluating and understanding …

This paper describes httperf, a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a
flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server …

The phenomenal growth in popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW, or the Web) has made
WWW traffic the largest contributor to packet and byte traffic on the NSFNET backbone. This …

The popularity of the Internet, and the usage of the world wide web in particular, has grown
rapidly in recent years. Thousands of companies have deployed Web servers and their …

Managing the resources in a large Web serving system requires knowledge of the resource
needs for service requests of various types. In order to investigate the properties of Web …

Understanding the nature of the workloads and system demands created by users of the
World Wide Web is crucial to properly designing and provisioning Web services. Previous …

There is a great deal of research about improving Web server performance and building
better, faster servers, but little research in characterizing servers and the load imposed upon …