benchbuddy

Runtime environment performance testing for containers - outputs cpu, memory, storage (ssd) read and write speeds, internet speeds, and more. This is valuable to test a container environment's resources and setup.

Getting started

Pre-requisite

Install a container runtime like Podman or Docker

Run

podman run ghcr.io/nicenode/benchbuddy
docker run ghcr.io/nicenode/benchbuddy

(sample output...)
Starting performance tests and other testing...

Number of cpu cores: 8 cores
Total memory: 12 GB

running a ~10 second file input and output speed test ...
(mount a volume to directory /test-volume to test the mount speed.)
Read: 3429 IOPS, 2972 min IOPS
Write: 1142 IOPS, 998 min IOPS

running a 10-30 second www.speedtest.net internet speed test ...
Ping: average 6.073ms, max 8.073ms
Download: average 294Mbps, latency: iqm 9.174ms and max 123.8ms
Upload: average 175Mbps, latency: iqm 85.826ms and max 268.886ms
Speedtest link: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/3e219403-e33c-426b-9c2a-1983126a6e4e

To test a mounted disk or ssd speed, mount it to /test-volume like so

docker run -v /path/to/host/disk:/test-volume ghcr.io/nicenode/benchbuddy

Output JSON

docker run ghcr.io/nicenode/benchbuddy -f json
{
  "cpu":{
    "cores":8,
    "maxThreads":94296,
    "sysbenchTest":{
      "1":10738,
      "4":42018,
      "8":75840,
      "32":75818
    }
  },
  "memory":{
    "total":11928,
    "sysbenchTest":{
      "read":{
        "32MB":40749,
        "1G":40819
      },
      "write":{
        "32MB":32409,
        "1G":32186
      }
    }
  },
  "storage":{
    "readIOPS":30068,
    "writeIOPS":10049,
    "readMinIOPS":25966,
    "writeMinIOPS":8638
  },
  "internet":{
    "download":365,
    "upload":175,
    "latency":6.194,
    "resultsUrl":"https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/a433dc9e-cb55-443b-8253-37a83a5cf591"
  }
}

This project is in early stages, so expect the output format to change. Run a limited set of tests Example only run cpu and memory tests

docker run ghcr.io/nicenode/benchbuddy -t cpu memory

CLI documentation

docker run ghcr.io/nicenode/benchbuddy --help

Develop

Local environment setup:

1. In the Containerfile, swap commenting out the entrypoint with cmd bash
2. Build a local container podman build -t benchbuddy-local .
3. Run the container interactively with a volume mount from this repo to /workdir in the container podman run -it -v $(pwd):/workdir benchbuddy-local so that changes to code on your host machine will reflect inside the container.
4. Modify index.js code
5. Run node /workdir/index.js inside the container

Why is my node not syncing?

The first goal of this project is to answer this question.

Secondly, this project can be used by developers and users who want to evaluate the performance and setup of their specific container environment. Example, a person who is a solo-home-ethereum-staker!

Credits

The first version of benchbuddy was based off of Stakehouse's eth-wizard's tests inside its Ethereum validator installation wizard. Code at https://github.com/stake-house/eth-wizard/blob/main/ethwizard/platforms/ubuntu/install.py#L51

Terms, agreements, privacy, etc

By using or running this code or container, you agree to the following agreements set by a third-party tool used inside this software:

Speedtest

From https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

You may only use this Speedtest software and information generated from it for personal, non-commercial use, through a command line interface on a personal computer. Your use of this software is subject to the End User License Agreement, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy at these URLs:

https://www.speedtest.net/about/eula

https://www.speedtest.net/about/terms

https://www.speedtest.net/about/privacy

WorldTimeAPI

From http://worldtimeapi.org/pages/privacypolicy

We do not... WorldTimeAPI is a simple service, and there is no requirement for us to persist any >information about our visitors. Therefore:

we do not issue Cookies or any other form of tracking tokens we do not "fingerprint" visitors We do not use Google Analytics or any other browser-based tracking service.

We do... We do log a small amount of information about the requests made to the service. This >information includes the date and time of requests, the IP the request came from, and it's >location. Some of this information is temporary; for example we keep the IP of the request >only for a few minutes so we can guard against attacks from malicious agents.

We also store details about system errors so they can be investigated and rectified.

Any information we do store long-term is purely to allow us plan for future enhancements to >the system, and there is no identifying information, pseudo or otherwise.