14.17. taler-exchange-benchmark(1)

14.17.1. Name

taler-exchange-benchmark - measure exchange performance

14.17.2. Synopsis

taler-exchange-benchmark [-c CONFIG_FILENAME | –config=CONFIG_FILENAME] [-F | –reserves-first] [-f | –fakebank] [-h | –help] [-K | –linger] [-L LOGLEVEL | –log-level=LOGLEVEL] [-l FILENAME | –logfile=FILENAME] [-m MODE | –mode=MODE] [-n HOWMANY_COINS | –coins-number=HOWMANY_COINS] [-p NPROCS | –parallelism=NPROCS] [-R RATE | –refresh-rate=RATE] [-r N | –reserves=N] [-v | –version]

14.17.3. Description

taler-exchange-benchmark is a command-line tool to measure the time spent to serve withdrawals/deposits/refreshes. It usually needs a dedicate configuration file where all the services - the exchange and the (fake)bank - listen to URLs not subject to any reverse proxy, as say Nginx. Moreover, the benchmark runs on a “volatile” database, that means that table are always erased during a single benchmark run.

-c CONFIG_FILENAME | –config=CONFIG_FILENAME
(Mandatory) Use CONFIG_FILENAME.
-F | –reserves-first
Create all reserves first, before starting normal operations.
-f | –fakebank
Launch a fakebank instead of the Python bank. Only meaningful if the mode is to launch more than just a client. Note that using the fakebank will cause the benchmark application to reset all databases as the fakebank is stateless and thus previous database state would inherently cause trouble.
-h | –help
Prints a compiled-in help text.
-K | –linger
Linger around until keypress after the benchmark is done.
-L LOGLEVEL | –log-level=LOGLEVEL
Specifies the log level to use. Accepted values are: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR.
-l FILENAME | –logfile=FILENAME
Send logging output to FILENAME.
-m MODE | –mode=MODE
Mode of operation. Accepted values are: exchange, clients, both.
-n HOWMANY_COINS | –coins-number=HOWMANY_COINS
Defaults to 1. Specifies how many coins this benchmark should withdraw and spend. After being spent, each coin will be refreshed with a probability RATE (see option --refresh-rate).
-p NPROCS | –parallelism=NPROCS
Run with NPROCS client processes.
-R RATE | –refresh-rate=RATE
Defaults to 10. Probability of refresh per coin (0-100).
-r N | –reserves=N
Create N reserves per client.
-v | –version
Print version information.

14.17.4. See Also

taler-exchange-dbinit(1), taler-exchange-offline(1), taler-merchant-benchmark(1), taler-exchange-httpd(1), taler.conf(5)

14.17.5. Bugs

Report bugs by using https://bugs.taler.net/ or by sending electronic mail to <taler@gnu.org>.