Benchmarking: Sockperf

Intro

Sockperf is a network benchmarking utility over socket API that was designed for testing performance (latency and throughput) of high-performance systems (it is also good for testing performance of regular networking systems as well). It covers most of the socket API calls and options.

Installation

1. download the sockperf package at https://sockperf.googlecode.com/files/sockperf-2.5.241.tar.gz
2. untar the package and cd into the folder
3. execute following command

    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ ./configure --prefix=<path to install>
    $ make
    $ make install

=Benchmarking

• server side:

   sockperf sr

• client side:

   sockperf pp -i 192.168.1.8 -t 5 -m 12

Notes: to decrease the latency, it is often worth pinning CPU and using optimized tools provided by vendors.