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From: Marc Slemko <marcs@worldgate.com>
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Subject: Re: web benchmarking
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Terry Mikhelzon wrote:

> Take a look at the WebBench ( http://www.webbench.com )
> It was developed by PCMag and they used to for all of their
> publiched web server contests. I am using it now, it works and is free.

webbench sucks from everything I have seen.  First of all, it needs a
bunch of 95 or NT boxes which I don't have.  Secondly, last time I looked
some of the things it was measuring were completely bogus and obviously
designed by someone without a clue about TCP...