exbenchcl

Name

exbenchcl — Enduro/X benchmark tool

Synopsis

exbenchcl [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

exbenchcl is Enduro/X benchmark tool. Tool is used for benchmarking standard tpcall(3) request/reply messages. Also tool supports persistent queue tpenqueue(3) and tpdequeue(3) benchmarking. Tools supports multi-threading and multi-processing. Test duration can be limited either by specified runtime in seconds or by optional number of messages processed by each processing unit (thread or processes).

Currently supported data buffer format is UBF. Data loaded to UBF is loaded in following way (may be combined):

  1. Data loaded from command line argument -b which is in format of tpjsontoubf(3)
  2. Random data generated and set in specified UBF CARRAY field in CLI options.

The benchmark result is appended to benchmark output file, in following format:

"Configuration" "MsgSize" "CallsPerSec"
"<config_name>" <msg_size_in_bytes> <calls_per_second>
"<config_name>" <msg_size_in_bytes> <calls_per_second>
...

When performing benchmark to persistent queue, the default mode is to enqueue and dequeue message.

WARNING: Binary is experimental and may be changed in future releases (including but not limited with replaced CLI flags, etc).

ENVIRONMENT

[NDRX_BENCH_FILE]
Benchmark output text file name. If not set, default name test.out is written in current directory.
[NDRX_BENCH_CONFIGNAME]
Configuration name used in benchmark file. If not specified, default value test is used.

OPTIONS

[-n NR_OF_THREADS]
Number of worker threads. In fork mode (-F), this configures the number of worker forked processes. Default is 1.
[-s CALL_SERVICE_NAME]
This configures the target service name. For queue testing mode (-Q specified), this identifies the target persistent queue name. In case if using multiple service (-N specified) names or queues, then actual service / queue name used by thread is constructed CALL_SERVICE_NAME appended with NNN, formatted as current thread number by modulus of the total number of services (-N value). Total service name length must not be longer than 30 symbols (name is truncated to 30 chars). Default is EXBENCH.
[-t RUN_TIME_SECONDS]
Number of seconds for test to run. The default is 60.
[-d OUTPUT_DIRECTOR]
Optional flag for changing output directory where object file is generated. If parameter is not set, current directory is used.
[-b SAMPLE_DATA_STRING]
UBF sample data in form of tpjsontoubf(3). 1024 bytes are allocated for target buffer.
[-S RANDOM_DATA_SIZE]
This specified random field size (field specified by -f) in bytes. The default value is 1024.
[-p PRIO]
Absolute call priority, if specified then before tpcall(3) or tpenqueue(3) the tpsprio(3) is executed by worker thread or process.
[-P]
Plot the results in benchmark output file. If this parameter is not specified, results are not written to benchmark output file.
[-f UBF_FIELD_NAME]
This parameter specifies CARRAY typed field name were random blob data of size specified by -S shall be loaded.
[-F]
Use fork mode, instead of threads.
[-N NUMBER_OF_SERVICES]
This parameter enables multi service/queue mode and in the same time specifies total number of services or queues used in test. The default value is 0, meaning that service name specified in -s is used without appending with the service/queue number.
[-Q QUEUE_SPACE_NAME]
This parameter if set enables persistent queue tests and at the same time it specifies the queue space name used for tpenqueue(3) and tpdequeue(3) calls.
[-A]
Enable testing of tmqueue(8) automatic forwarding queue. During the test specified run-time, messages are enqueued only. Once time (or message count -R) have been exceeded, the worker thread/process will perform periodic peek to message queue, to ensure that count is 0 (thus all messages have been forwarded). By default if -A or -E flags are not specified, then persistent queue benchmark is performed as pair of tpenqueue(3) and tpdequeue(3) operations.
[-E]
Persist messages only (for -Q mode). Thus only tpenqueue(3) is executed.
[-R NUMBER_OF_REQUESTS]
If set, then this parameter limits the benchmarking additionally to number of messages processed by worker thread. Benchmark will terminate in either time is reached or number of requests reached, which ever comes first. Total number of requests is made by test is multiplied by worker thread/process count.
[-T TRANSACTION_TIMEOUT]
If flag is set and value TRANSACTION_TIMEOUT is greater than 0, worker threads will perform calls in global transaction. This means that exbenchcl must have proper transaction environment. If this flag is not set, the XATMI calls are not run in transaction mode.
[-I]
Used for process to wait for tpnotify(3) call from server back to benchmark client. In this mode, benchmark tool sets the XATMI client id in EX_CLTID UBF field. When exbenchsv receives the request and if it sees that EX_CLTID is set, it performs the tpnotify() call with the request buffer and only after that performs tpreturn().
[-e]
Perform tppost(3) instead of tpcall(3). If parameter is set, event name is set in -s parameter.
[-h]
Print usage.

EXIT STATUS

0
Success
1
Failure

CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE

Responder service in ndrxconfig.xml(5), single service name mode -N (not set or 0).

    <server name="exbenchsv">
            <srvid>1800</srvid>
            <min>15</min>
            <max>15</max>
            <sysopt>-e /tmp/EXBENCH</sysopt>
    </server>

Responder service in ndrxconfig.xml(5), multi-service mode, 5 services:

    <server name="exbenchsv">
            <srvid>1800</srvid>
            <min>15</min>
            <max>15</max>
            <sysopt>-e /tmp/EXBENCH</sysopt>
            <appopt>-N5</appopt>
    </server>

EXAMPLE

Benchmark of UBF buffer at 1024 bytes with 5 threads:

$ exbenchcl -n5 -P -t20 -b "{}" -f EX_DATA -S1024

Benchmark of 10 threads, to 5 service names

$ exbenchcl -n10 -P -t20 -b "{}" -f EX_DATA -S1024 -N5

Persistent queue benchmark to queue space named SAMPLESPACE. Queue name used is TESTQ1:

$ exbenchcl -n10 -P -t20 -b "{}" -f EX_DATA -S1024 -QSAMPLESPACE -sTESTQ1

BUGS

Report bugs to support@mavimax.com

SEE ALSO

exbenchsv(8) ndrxconfig.xml(5)

COPYING

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