y377 / ben

Simple benchmarking using shell

ben

Simple benchmarking using shell

This is a preview, I'll add others kinds of benchmark soon

Install

1. Clone the repo or download the zip:

git clone https://github.com/insign/ben.git && cd ben

2. Mark it as executable

chmod +x ./ben

Soon I'll make it available to run without install

Usage

Test using the most popular DNS servers (see ipv4.csv)

./ben dns
./ben dns youtube.com
./ben d wikipedia.org

TO-DO

• Add CPU, disk and connection benchmarking
• Add IPv6 DNS benchmarking
• Use a bash framework
  • Catch errors thrown by network failure
• Manipulate results better. e.g: sort
  • Accept --json parameter to show machine values
• Save results locally
• Save results online
  • on public server
  • on private server
  • add privacy terms
• Create fast install command
• Test DNS ordered by random
• Add ben to xpm
• Add auto-update
• Create a container image to run without install
• Command to run using curl instead install
• Unit tests

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

Contribute

For now, you can just make a PR.

Thanks

bashly - bash CLI generator

Inspired by delfer's gist