BSD Ports

www/http_load 20160309 OpenBSD

multiprocessing HTTP performance testing client

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories
www, benchmarks

Description

http_load runs multiple HTTP fetches in parallel, to test the throughput of a web server.

However unlike most such test clients, it runs in a single process, so it doesn't bog down the client machine. It can be configured to do HTTPS fetches as well.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDwww/http_load20160309
FreeBSDwww/http_load20160309_1
NetBSDwww/http_load20160309
DragonFlywww/http_load20160309_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add http_load

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/www/http_load && make install

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.