wrk reports means and standard deviations but most web services latencies are not along a bell curve about wrk HOT 4 CLOSED

Disclaimer: I have not used wrk yet. I currently follow the repo as a potential future user. Feel free to ignore me :)

It seems there is a way to access the 99.9 via a custom script, but I agree 50/95/99/99.9 would be useful. I think another useful visualization is a power of 2 histogram like that found in DTrace. This allows detection of multimodal latency distributions which can be an indication of cache misses among other things.

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Hi @jmhodges & @rzezeski, the --latency option prints latency percentiles, and as @rzezeski noted the Lua scripting feature may be used to perform custom reporting.

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The point of this issue was that the default behavior is confusing and, really, wrong for the vast majority of web services.

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Would it be worth to add --latency to the basic usage? Or add another example in the README?

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