A Benchmarking and Performance Analysis Framework
The code base includes three sub-systems. The first is the collection agent
or harness, pbench-agent, responsible for providing commands for running
benchmarks across one or more systems, while properly collecting the
configuration of those systems, their logs, and specified telemetry from
various tools (sar, vmstat, perf, etc.).
The second sub-system included here is pbench-server,
which is responsible for archiving result tar balls, indexing them, and
unpacking them for display.
The third sub-system is the web server JS and CSS files used to display various
graphs and results, and any other content generated by the background tasks,
or by the pbench-agent during benchmark and tool post-processing steps.
Instructions on installing pbench-agent, can be found
in the PBench agent installation guide.
For Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL users, we have made available COPR
builds for the
pbench-agent, configtools, pbench-server, pbench-web-server
and some benchmark and tool packages.
This assumes that somebody has already installed the server bits. The procedure to do that is described in the PBench Server Installation guide.
You can install the web-server subsystem
on the machine where you run pbench from. That allows you to view the graphs before sending
the results to the server, or even if there is no server to send the results to. See
the PBench web server installation
guide.
You might want to browse through the rest of the documentation.
Refer to the PBench User Guide.
TL;DR? See TL;DR - How to set up pbench and run a benchmark of the PBench User Guide for a super quick set of introductory steps.
The latest source code is at https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/pbench.
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