Geist: a generator for e-commerce & internet server traffic
- 24 August 2005
- proceedings article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
This paper describes Geist, a trac generator for stress testing of web servers. The gen- erator provides a large number of dialable parameters that allow trac characteristics to range from simple static web-page browsing to the transactional trac seen by e-commerce front end servers. Unlike other trac generators, our generator concentrates on the charac- teristics of the aggregate trac arriving at the server, which allows for better control of the scaling properties of the trac and a more scalable generation. In this paper, we describe the trac characterization and generation process that Geist is based on. We also present the performance of our current implementation, instances of its usage and directions for future work.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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