From 5875eafd2236521f7386cc2994ea7398bd20ec2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Nottingham Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:09:37 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] add intro to README (taken from google code site) --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 185baed..ba03ed1 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ +# httperf + +httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. + +The focus of httperf is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro- and macro-level benchmarks. The three distinguishing characteristics of httperf are its robustness, which includes the ability to generate and sustain server overload, support for the HTTP/1.1 and SSL protocols, and its extensibility to new workload generators and performance measurements. + + ## Building httperf This release of httperf is using the standard GNU configuration