realistic web benchmark

[Yaoping Ruan]

"Igor Shmukler" wrote:

> I probably was not 100% clear when I asked the question. Sorry. I am looking for
> test that would tell me how will server perform in the field on WAN.
>

Erich Nahum at IBM Research had a work called WASP. They used Dummynet as  WAN
environment emulator, and s-client as WWW request generator. The paper is at:
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/nahum/publications/sigmetrics01-wasp.pdf

S-client is available at:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/Web-measurement/sources.html

Hope this is helpful.

- Yaoping