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h1. weighttp
h2. About
@weighttp@ (pronounced @weighty@) is a lightweight and small benchmarking tool for webservers.
It was designed to be very fast and easy to use and only supports a tiny fraction of the HTTP protocol in order to be lean and simple.
@weighttp@ supports multithreading to make good use of modern CPUs with multiple cores as well as asynchronous i/o
for concurrent requests within a single thread.
For event handling, weighty relies on "libev":http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html which fits the design perfectly, being lightweight and fast itself.
Thanks to that, weighty supports all modern high-performance event interfaces like epoll or kqueue, that the major OSs provide.
h2. Deployment
h3. Obtaining
Use "git":http://git-scm.com/ to fetch the latest source:
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$ git clone git://git.lighttpd.net/weighttp
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or download a .tar.gz from http://cgit.lighttpd.net/weighttp/snapshot/weighttp-master.tar.gz
h3. Bulding
Use "waf":http://code.google.com/p/waf/ (included, needs python) to build:
<pre>
$ ./waf configure
$ ./waf build
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See ./waf --help for available configure options and other commands available.
Alternatively, you can just use gcc directly too (but you will have to (un)install it manually:
<pre>
$ gcc -g2 -O2 -lev -lpthread src/*.c -o weighttp
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h3. Installing
Depending on your configure arguments, you might need root to (un)install.
<pre>
$ ./waf install
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h3. Removing
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$ ./waf uninstall
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h2. Usage
@weighttp@ uses similar commandline arguments as @apache bench@ (ab):
<pre>
weighttp <options> <url>
-n num number of requests (mandatory)
-t num threadcount (default: 1)
-c num concurrent clients (default: 1)
-k keep alive (default: no)
-h show help and exit
-v show version and exit
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