Information about the package, sockperf, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The sockperf package is designed for, Network benchmarking utility for testing latency and throughput.
Package Name:
sockperf
Summary:
Network benchmarking utility for testing latency and throughput
Description:
sockperf is a network benchmarking utility over socket API that was designed for testing performance (latency and throughput) of high-performance systems (it is also good for testing performance of regular networking systems as well). It covers most of the socket API calls and options. Specifically, in addition to the standard throughput tests, sockperf, does the following: * Measure latency of each discrete packet at sub-nanosecond resolution (using TSC register that counts CPU ticks with very low overhead). * Does the above for both ping-pong mode and for latency under load mode. This means that we measure latency of single packets even under load of millions Packets Per Second (without waiting for reply of packet before sending subsequent packet on time) * Enable spike analysis by providing histogram, with various percentiles of the packets’ latencies (for example: median, min, max, 99% percentile, and more), (this is in addition to average and standard deviation). Also, sockperf provides full log with all packet’s tx/rx times that can be further analyzed with external tools, such as MS-Excel or matplotlib - All this without affecting the benchmark itself. * Support MANY optional settings for good coverage of socket API and network configurations, while still keeping very low overhead in the fast path to allow cleanest results.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.5.244
Release:
1.el6
Size:
401 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the sockperf package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install sockperf
This command will install sockperf on the server.
yum remove sockperf
This command will un-install sockperf on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sockperf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove sockperf
This command will un-install sockperf on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove sockperf when using the -y flag.
yum update sockperf
This command will update sockperf to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sockperf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update sockperf
This command will update sockperf to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove sockperf when using the -y flag.
yum info sockperf
This command will show you core information about the sockperf package.
yum deplist sockperf
This command will show you the dependencies for sockperf. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update sockperf
This command will check if there is an update waiting on sockperf. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.