3 README WebStone 2.0.1 bug fix release
4 Proxy server bug fixed (now correctly handles proxy server)
5 Error reading page_stats error fixed
6 More Windows NT integration
7 Correctly handles URL's to different hostnames in the filelist
8 Improved Solaris compatibility
10 NOTE: If you intend to run webstone with more than 100 URL
11 entries in the filelist, please edit src/bench.h and change the
12 MAXNUMOFPAGES value to reflect the higher number, and then recompile
13 everything. Copy the new binaries into the bin directory and then
16 README WebStone 2.0 Release version
18 WARNING: WebStone 2.0 results should not be compared with WebStone 1.1
19 results. Even under the same fileset performance will not be
22 Please see the notes for 2.0beta6 for quick and dirty install
23 This version includes a port of the webstone source code to Windows
24 NT. This port is still in progress, so it is not possible to guarantee
25 that everything is working correctly - however in our test configurations
26 it has performed correctly. Note that the supporting scripts and report
27 generating code has not been ported to NT yet.
29 This version also institutes some basic run rules to eliminate the
30 lack of conformity in Webstone performance quotes.
31 To report Webstone numbers, some basic rules should be followed:
33 1) The fileset used for the test must be the fileset.standard fileset
34 included in the distribution. Tests of CGI performance must be
35 with the file filelist.cgi-heavy, and tests of NSAPI performance
36 must be carried out with filelist.dynamic-heavy
38 2) The run time should be set for 10 minutes, and the number of
39 clients should vary from 20 clients to 100 clients in increments
40 of 10. When a connections/second time is quoted, it must include
41 information about the number of clients involved.
43 3) Any special TCP/IP tuning which the server has recieved should
44 be documented, as well as HTTPD server version and configuration
45 information such as logging, DNS lookups and number of threads.
48 README - WebStone 2.0beta6
50 WARNING: Do not compare WebStone 2.0 results with WebStone 1.0 results.
51 WebStone 2.0 introduces significant changes in testing methodology
54 This is the WebStone benchmark. Quick and dirty install:
56 - put this directory (WebStone) on a seperate machine (the "controller")
57 - "./webstone -setup", which does the following:
59 This script may fail if you don't have a Web browser or
60 Perl5. Don't worry, unless you want to use the GUI.
62 If the GNU autoconf fails for your OS, please forward the
63 error messages, and any porting hints, to the author.
65 This may not be necessary, since IRIX binaries are included.
66 - edit conf/testbed to reflect your site
67 See the doc/FAQ-webstone.html for details.
68 - ./webstone -genfiles will put the files in conf/fileset
71 - to display a table of results: ./webstone -results
73 If you'd like to try out the GUI for WebStone:
74 - run "./webstone -setup", as above.
75 - make sure you have a Web browser installed
80 README: This document.
81 README.FIRST: Quick and dirty directions.
82 README.DynamicWorkload: Information on the CGI and NSAPI workloads.
83 webstone: wrapper shell script for everything.
85 -gui: start the GUI mode
86 -kill: kill stray WebStone processes
87 -genfiles: build files (from conf/fileset)
88 and rcp onto the server $SERVER
89 - results: print table of results
90 -setup: initial make and setup
91 -silent: runs in the background
92 -tail: tail -f of most recent run
94 Files of interest (./src):
95 Makefile, *.c, *.h: The Webstone source code
97 Files of interest (./bin):
98 checkfilelist: uses rsh to check web server for files in filelist.
99 genfiles, genrand: generates files of arbitrary length.
100 getstats: Collects network statistics from Web server, clients.
101 killbench: terminates stray WebStone processes.
102 rebootall: reboots all WebStone webclients.
103 runbench: wrapper script for WebStone.
104 webmaster: WebStone controller executable.
105 webstone: WebStone client executable.
106 wscollect: reports results in tabular format.
108 Files of interest (./conf):
109 filelist: default list of files on the Web server,
110 with workload description.
111 filelist.photo: Model of a popular Web site
112 containing photographic images.
113 filelist.ss: Model of SGI's Silicon Surf WWW site.
114 fileset: list of files for genfiles to create.
115 testbed: config file describing Web server, client, and network setup.
117 Documentation (./doc):
118 FAQ.html: The FAQ, current as of this distribution.
119 LICENSE: Legal status of WebStone.
120 testbed.help: Explains the parameters in conf/testbed.
121 webstone-white-paper.ps: The original WebStone white paper.
122 webstone.gif: The WebStone logo.
124 Additional documentation:
125 FAQ.html: Frequently Asked Questions, with answers
126 webstone.ps: PostScript white paper on WebStone
128 Problems, etc. may be addressed to the WebStone mailing list.
129 Read the FAQ for details.
131 Release Notes (2.0 beta6):
132 * fixed a bug for Web servers not on port 80
133 * further changes to bin/wscollect.pl
135 Release Notes (2.0 beta5):
136 * numerous minor fixes suggested by gcc -Wall -pedantic
138 * changed bin/wscollect.pl to use Perl formats
140 Release Notes (2.0 beta4):
141 * added #include <sys/time.h> to bench.h
142 * changed webclient located to $TMPDIR - this should help people
143 who don't want to run WebStone as root
144 * changed check for libm to floor() instead of sqrt(). Apparently
145 some systems implement sqrt() in libc - let's hope no one implement
146 floor() in libc and sqrt() in libm!
148 Release Notes (2.0 beta3):
149 * more portability fixes
150 * successfully compiled on FreeBSD 2.2, IRIX without any source
153 Release Notes (2.0 beta2):
154 * additional timezone fixes for SunOS
156 Release Notes (2.0 beta1):
157 * fixed a bug in the rexec portion of webmaster.c
158 * fixed a bug in the usage() routine of webmaster.c
159 * added bin/genfiles-from-filelist.sh
160 - bin/genfiles-from-filelist.sh <filename>
161 - generates appropriate-length files from <filename>
162 - <filename> must contain three fields:
163 <relative URL> <weight> #<size in bytes>
164 example: /file.html 1 #1024
165 * added bin/mine-logs.pl
166 - usage: mine-logs.pl <filename>
167 where <filename> is an http server log file
168 - writes a WebStone workload to standard output
170 Release Notes (2.0 alpha5):
171 * revised default testbed file
172 * changed wscollect to wscollect.pl for consistency
173 * changed webstone-gui to webstone-gui.pl for consistency
174 * added some NT porting hints
175 * added autoconf, which should help Linux and SunOS porting
177 Release Notes (2.0 alpha4):
178 * added SunOS and Linux portability elements
179 * new scheme for random access to pages
180 * converted several static arrays to dynamic pointers
182 Release Notes (2.0 alpha2):
183 * fixed per-page statistics
184 * new, client-independent data-passing scheme
185 * added support for proxy servers
187 Release Notes (2.0 alpha1):
188 * new filelist scheme - however, this breaks per-page statistics
192 * Improved webclient performance by combining GET and ACCEPT
193 HTTP headers in one write() call.
194 * Improved webclient performance on systems that always attempt
195 to map protocol names to numbers using YP.
196 * WARNING: since the old code introduced a significant latency
197 in some systems, DO NOT compare WebStone 1.1 results
198 with results generated by any previous versions.
200 Release Notes (1.0.3):
201 * Netscape Server 1.1.2 exposed a couple bugs, which I've now fixed.
203 Release Notes (1.0.2):
204 * Fixed runbench so that ITERATIONS, MINCLIENTS, and MAXCLIENTS don't
205 have to have a common denominator any more.
206 * Fixed a few cosmetic bugs.
208 Release Notes (1.0.1):
209 * Fixed select() bug in webmaster
211 Release Notes (1.0 final):
212 * Fixed the "Error reading 2nd timing info" bug
213 * Fixed numerous bugs in the GUI
214 * Froze feature set. Work can now begin on WebStone 1.1
216 Release Notes (1.0b3):
217 * New Web browser GUI
218 NOTE: most Web browsers take up substantial CPU time.
219 If you run the GUI, we recommend that you make the controller
220 a separate machine, and don't run any WebStone clients on it.
222 Squashed some dubious error messages, fixed some client-
223 controller communications problems.
225 Changes the units and order of the final summary statistics.
226 Basically, this is for my own convenience, so I don't have to
227 massage the data quite so much before using it. wscollect
228 now reports only the metrics I regard as important - but all
229 metrics are still reported in the runs/*/run files.
233 This file and all files contained in this directory are
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