Unix IPC Testing
Testing the performance of Unix IPC. Adapted from blog post by Eli Bendersky.
Running
First build
go build ./bin/server
go build ./bin/client
Run the client and server programs separately
./server --unixdomain --msgsize 10000000 &
./client --unixdomain --msgsize 10000000
Some test results
IPC
Unix Domain Sockets on an AWS c5n.large instance.
128 byte messages
50000 pingpongs took 790975853 ns
avg. rt latency 15819 ns
avg. thoughput 0.007536 GB/sec
10,000,000 byte messages
50000 pingpongs took 37768188364 ns
avg. rt latency 755363 ns
avg. thoughput 12.329458 GB/sec
Network
Running over the network with a pair of c5n.large instances (placement group locality).
128 byte messages
50000 pingpongs took 3120816262 ns
avg. rt latency 62416 ns
avg. thoughput 0.001910 GB/sec
10,000,000 byte messages
1000 pingpongs took 8487414031 ns
avg. rt latency 8487414 ns
avg. thoughput 1.097298 GB/sec