Re:Linux extreme performance H1 load generator
by 0x000xca0xfe on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:25AM
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Exactly. For GET reqeuests HTTP/1 conformant servers must support pipelining or close the connection.
So this is the best way to generate extreme load and stress-test the internal architecture of an HTTP/1 server. But yeah the sendfile approach only works for this kind of testing and not in the generic case.
I can see in the results .txt that only a small portion of the sent requests actually result in a response, also not every server supports H/1.1 pipeline so they will flush once per request (typical workload), servers that support pipeline will have way higher throughput