CommandBench -- All-purpose application benchmarking tool

Running CommandBench

You can run CommandBench from this directory with installing:

./cb "COMMAND_TO_BENCHMARK" ["COMMAND" ...]

Example:

$ ./cb -q -n 10 "find $HOME -name '*.py'" "find $HOME | grep .py"

Benchmarking command(s) 10 times (concurrency 1)
Please be patient...

command                           real (avg)       user (avg)       sys (avg)        
=====================================================================================
find /home/awagner -name '*.py'   0:00:00.588300   0:00:00.270400   0:00:00.313700   
find /home/awagner | grep .py     0:00:00.540100   0:00:00.224100   0:00:00.336600   
=====================================================================================
                                  0:00:00.564200   0:00:00.247250   0:00:00.325150  

Benchmarks can also be run in an xargs-like manner:

$ cb -q -a "`find . -name "*.py"`" ls   

Benchmarking command(s) 1 times (concurrency 1)
Please be patient...

command                         real (avg)       user (avg)       sys (avg)        
===================================================================================
ls ./commandbench/__init__.py   0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.001000   
ls ./commandbench/about.py      0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.002000   
ls ./commandbench/cli.py        0:00:00.003000   0:00:00          0:00:00.002000   
ls ./commandbench/process.py    0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.001000   
ls ./commandbench/time.py       0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.004000   
ls ./setup.py                   0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.001000   
===================================================================================
                                0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.000833   0:00:00.001833   

or use a file-pattern for your iteration arg:

$ cb -q -f "commandbench/*.py" ls

Benchmarking command(s) 1 times (concurrency 1)
Please be patient...

command                       real (avg)       user (avg)       sys (avg)        
=================================================================================
ls commandbench/__init__.py   0:00:00.003000   0:00:00          0:00:00.004000   
ls commandbench/about.py      0:00:00.003000   0:00:00          0:00:00.005000   
ls commandbench/cli.py        0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.002000   
ls commandbench/process.py    0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.001000   0:00:00.001000   
ls commandbench/time.py       0:00:00.003000   0:00:00          0:00:00.003000   
=================================================================================
                              0:00:00.003000   0:00:00.000400   0:00:00.003000 

Dependencies

• Python 2.6
• DataGrid 0.1

Installing CommandBench

For a system-wide installation run (as root):

./setup.py install

CommandBench is licensed under the GNU/GPLv3 (see COPYING for details).

Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Adam Wagner awagner83@gmail.com