From: Joel Joonatan Kaartinen <joel.kaartinen@gmail•com>
To: Ian Miers <imiers1@jhu•edu>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] performance testing for bitcoin
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:55:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349344554.31175.6.camel@mei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEC9zAZR7xOUEJZz0f-Of0HTVAcL8uCw3tcR1s66Hg_kZbczRg@mail.gmail.com>
For script evaluation benchmarking, I don't think just a good
approximation of real-world traffic is enough. You really need to
benchmark the worst case scenarios, otherwise you could be creating a
DoS vulnerability.
- Joel
ke, 2012-10-03 kello 13:57 -0400, Ian Miers kirjoitti:
> Script evaluation performance was what I was primarily concerned
> with. I'm fooling around with adding some new instruction types.
> The tricky part is that to test how that effects performance, you need
> to be able to intersperse transactions with the new instructions with
> existing ones. For accuracy, you'd like your simulated traffic to at
> least approximate the real world traffic.
>
>
>
>
> Also, is there any bench-marking / instrumentation in bitcoind ?
>
>
> Ian
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ian Miers <imiers1@jhu•edu>
> wrote:
> > Whats the best way to get performance numbers for
> modifications to bitcoin ?
> > Profiling it while running on testnet might work, but that
> would take a
> > rather long time to get data.
> > Is there anyway to speed this up if we only needed to
> provide relative
> > performance between tests. (in a sense a fast performance
> regression test).
>
>
> You have to be specific about what you're measuring, because
> "performance" is vague.
>
> You can measure many aspects of blockchain performance by
> importing
> blocks via -loadblock=FILE.
>
> Other performance measurements like "how fast does a block
> relay
> through the network" cannot be as easily measured.
>
> --
> Jeff Garzik
> exMULTI, Inc.
> jgarzik@exmulti•com
>
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[not found] ` <CAEC9zAYrMHHEyyTx1QVHoGSJU3fFypB0Hx4K-VFoUn0hp4Z7JA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-03 17:38 ` Ian Miers
2012-10-03 17:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-03 17:57 ` Ian Miers
2012-10-04 9:55 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen [this message]
2012-10-04 16:31 ` Ian Miers
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