Extending TPC-W to allow for fine grained workload specification

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a method to characterize workload from a web server logfile from a user perspective. The data obtained in this process is used to create workload for the TPC-W benchmark.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
benchmark, capacity planning, user modeling, web performance