Saturday, April 21, 2007

Mindcraft - WebStone Benchmark

Mindcraft - WebStone Benchmark Information

WebStone 2.5
Both executable and source code for WebStone 2.5 are available for free and will stay that way. The highlights of the new release are:
It's much more reliable.
Tests are reproducible. The previous version of WebStone used a time of day random seed. Now it can optionally use a fixed random seed.
WebStone 2.5 comes with a new license designed to encourage you to contribute enhancements while protecting you and your company from liability.
There is an optional new dynamic workload that simulates ad rotation.
WebStone 2.5 results can be compared to WebStone 2.01 results (unless you use the new dynamic workload).

Future Enhancements
Mindcraft wants to encourage the WebStone community to make enhancements for everyone to use. The most popular WebStone enhancement requests are:
SSL support
POST support
HTTP 1.1 support
Cookie support
Dynamic workloads with database access
Authentication
HTTP 1.0 keep-alive support
The ability to send different headers
Support for a large number of URLs
Pre-compiled executables for more systems