#!/bin/sh # # This script runs a series of netperf tests intended to gather the # raw material necessary to arrive at estimates for the cost of # sending and receiving a TCP segment, the cost of each additional byte # and the cost of each incremental segment. # # there are a number of data points gathered by this script - it might # run for a considerable length of time. # # rick jones 4/99 # if [ $# -gt 2 ]; then echo "try again, correctly -> packet_byte_script hostname [CPU]" exit 1 fi if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "try again, correctly -> packet_byte_script hostname [CPU]" exit 1 fi # where is netperf NETPERF_CMD=${NETPERF_CMD:=/opt/netperf/netperf} # at what port will netserver be waiting? If you decide to run # netserver at a differnet port than the default of 12865, then set # the value of NETPERF_PORT apropriately # NETPERF_PORT="-p some_other_portnum" NETPERF_PORT=${NETPERF_PORT:=""} # The test length in seconds NETPERF_TIME=${NETPERF_TIME:=20} # How accurate we want the estimate of performance: # maximum and minimum test iterations (-i) # confidence level (99 or 95) and interval (percent) NETPERF_STATS=${NETPERF_STATS:="-i 10,3 -I 99,5"} # The socket sizes that we will be testing - using zero will let it # be the system default. NETPERF_SKTS=${NETPERF_SKTS:="0"} # The request,response sizes that we will be using. The netperf # command parser will treat "1" the same as "1,1" - I use 1,1 to # remember that it is "request,response" NETPERF_REQS=${NETPERF_REQS:="1 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 \ 1460 1461 2920 2921 4380 4381"} NETPERF_RESP=${NETPERF_RESP:="1 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 \ 1460 1461 2920 2921 4380 4381"} # if there are two parms, parm one it the hostname and parm two will # be a CPU indicator. actually, anything as a second parm will cause # the CPU to be measured, but we will "advertise" it should be "CPU" if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then REM_HOST=$1 LOC_CPU="-c" REM_CPU="-C" fi if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then REM_HOST=$1 fi # If we are measuring CPU utilization, then we can save beaucoup # time by saving the results of the CPU calibration and passing # them in during the real tests. So, we execute the new CPU "tests" # of netperf and put the values into shell vars. case $LOC_CPU in \-c) LOC_RATE=`$NETPERF_CMD $PORT -t LOC_CPU`;; *) LOC_RATE="" esac case $REM_CPU in \-C) REM_RATE=`$NETPERF_CMD $PORT -t REM_CPU -H $REM_HOST`;; *) REM_RATE="" esac # This disables header display NO_HDR="-P 0" NO_HDR="" for SOCKET_SIZE in $NETPERF_SKTS do echo echo ------------------------------------------------------ echo Testing with the following command line: # we echo the command line for cut and paste to th database echo $NETPERF_CMD $NETPERF_PORT -l $NETPERF_TIME -H $REM_HOST -t TCP_RR \ $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE echo echo and these settings for send sizes $NETPERF_REQS echo for REQ in $NETPERF_REQS do # since we have the confidence interval stuff, we do not # need to repeat a test multiple times from the shell $NETPERF_CMD $NETPERF_PORT -l $NETPERF_TIME -H $REM_HOST $NO_HDR \ -t TCP_RR $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -r ${REQ},1 -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE NO_HDR="-P 0" done echo echo ------------------------------------------------------ NO_HDR="" echo Testing with the following command line: # we echo the command line for cut and paste to th database echo $NETPERF_CMD $NETPERF_PORT -l $NETPERF_TIME -H $REM_HOST -t TCP_RR \ $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE echo and these settings for response sizes $NETPERF_RESP echo for RESP in $NETPERF_RESP do # since we have the confidence interval stuff, we do not # need to repeat a test multiple times from the shell $NETPERF_CMD $PORT -l $NETPERF_TIME -H $REM_HOST $NO_HDR \ -t TCP_RR $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -r 1,${RESP} -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE NO_HDR="-P 0" done echo echo ------------------------------------------------------ NO_HDR="" echo Testing with the following command line: # we echo the command line for cut and paste to th database echo $NETPERF_CMD $NETPERF_PORT -l $NETPERF_TIME -H $REM_HOST -t TCP_STREAM\ $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE echo and these settings for response sizes $NETPERF_RESP echo for REQ in $NETPERF_REQS do # since we have the confidence interval stuff, we do not # need to repeat a test multiple times from the shell $NETPERF_CMD $PORT -l $NETPERF_TIME -H $REM_HOST $NO_HDR \ -t TCP_STREAM $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -m ${REQ} -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE -D NO_HDR="-P 0" done done # The test length in seconds for the CRR test, which needs to be # longer for a connect/request/response test NETPERF_CRR_TIME=${NETPERF_CRR_TIME:=120} # now we do the TCP_CRR test echo echo ------------------------------------------------------ echo $NETPERF_CMD $NETPERF_PORT -l $NETPERF_CRR_TIME -H $REM_HOST -t TCP_CRR\ $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE echo $NETPERF_CMD $NETPERF_PORT -l $NETPERF_CRR_TIME -H $REM_HOST -t TCP_CRR\ $LOC_CPU $LOC_RATE $REM_CPU $REM_RATE $NETPERF_STATS --\ -s $SOCKET_SIZE -S $SOCKET_SIZE