weighttp - a lightweight and simple webserver benchmarking tool
Weighttp is threaded and might exhaust resources of an application better than ApacheBench or httperf.
You need libev Show archive.org snapshot installed.
sudo apt-get install libev-dev
./waf configure
sudo ./waf install
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