Dummynet: a simple approach to the evaluation of network protocols
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
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This paper describes the Inktomi Climate Lab, an in-house environment that analyzes and simulates the HTTP traffic at our customer deployments. This lab is used to verify the stability and measure the performance of our web proxy cache, Inktomi Traffic Server1, which has been deployed at many customer sites. The ability to support all HTTP headers, methods, and status codes, as well as features such as pipelining and chunked-encoding, enables our Climate Lab to accurately simulate any deployment.Having an in-house Climate Lab that is able to reproduce the network traffic at any customer site affords several benefits. For instance, it gives us the ability to thoroughly stress-test the software before deployment, thus ensuring its high quality and robustness in the field. Also, it gives us the ability to quickly reproduce and resolve software issues that do occur in the field.