Distbench README
Introduction
Distbench is a tool for synthesizing a variety of network traffic patterns used in distributed systems, and evaluating their performance across multiple networking stacks.
A Distbench experiment consists of a single controller process and a set of worker processes. The controller initiates a traffic pattern among the set of workers, monitors traffic and generates a performance report for the RPCs. The traffic pattern, specified spatially and temporally and the RPC stack are all configurable by the controller.
Why Use Distbench ?
Use Distbench to:
- Identify system bottlenecks for various common distributed computing tasks,
- Compare RPC stack performance for various common traffic patterns,
- Evaluate the impact of system configurations, application threading models and kernel configurations on large, scale-out applications.
Included documentation
- Distbench Overview: Provides an overview of Distbench, its model and design.
- Distbench Getting Started: Provides information on how to compile and run Distbench for the first time.
- Distbench Workloads: Describes the workloads included.
- Distbench Traffic Pattern - Format: Defined the traffic pattern test format.
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