Install httperf from source on CentOS 6

Install httperf from source on CentOS 6.md

Get and unzip source

wget https://github.com/httperf/httperf/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd httperf-master

Change ulimit -n

Change ulimit -n to desired value, for example:

echo '* soft nofile 20000' >> /etc/security/limits.conf

Install libtool

yum install -y libtool

Create folder m4 for autotools

The folder is not created automatically but must be present so that the autotools could work

mkdir m4

Configure and build

autoreconf –install
autoconf configure.ac
./configure
make
make install

The binary is installed into /usr/local/bin/. Make sure it's in your PATH.