Benchy - Server Benchmarking Script

Benchy is a fork of MasonR's Yet Another Bench Script (YABS).

Patron List

• ReadyDedis provide a VM with multiple disk to fully accommodate multiple disk bench.
• jugganuts helps fund the domain name https://benchy.pw.

Table of Contents

• Usage
  • Normal
  • Alias
  • Environment Variable
• Feature
• Supported Flag
• Portability
• Requirement
• Example Output

Usage

Normal

Via wget.

wget -qO- benchy.pw | sh

Via curl.

curl -Ls benchy.pw | sh

Alias

1. Add following command to your .bashrc or .bash_aliases.

   • wget.

       benchy() { wget -qO- benchy.pw | sh -s -- "$@"; }
     

   • curl.

       benchy() { curl -Ls benchy.pw | sh -s -- "$@"; }
     

2. Source the file then (e.g. . ~/.bashrc or . ~/.bash_aliases).
3. Simply execute benchy as is-- probably with option.

	$ benchy -v
	Version  : v2.4
	Revision : 24 Nov 2022

Environment Variable

If you find yourself perform benchmark alot, you may find this feature useful. By default benchy will find if .benchy_opt exist on home directory, and will pick variable defined there.

1. Download the template.

   wget -O $HOME/.benchy_opt benchy.pw/env
   

   or

   wget -qO- benchy.pw | sh -s -- -e
   

2. Uncomment any variable you wish to enable.
3. Run benchy with option -u or --use-env.

   wget -qO- benchy.pw | sh -s -- -u
   

   You will see Found predefined option ! message.

Supported flag

Usage: benchy [options]
Options:
  -o, --output            Store benchy result to file in given directory (default: Current directory)
  -c, --color=ARG         Enable or disable colored output (Valid ARG: yes, no, force)
  -e, --grab-env          Pull benchy environmental file
  -u, --use-env           Use environmental file in place of regular option
  -k, --keep-file         Keep benchy related files after successful run (default: Remove)
  -4, --geekbench4        Utilize ONLY geekbench 4 instead of 5
  -q, --geekbench         Utilize both geekbench 4 and 5
  -j, --json              Store benchy result as json
  -m, --region            Enable region based network test, otherwise will use mixed source
  -n, --skip-network      Skip network measurement test
  -d, --skip-disk         Skip fio disk benchmark test
  -g, --skip-gb           Skip geekbench 5 test
  -r, --region=ARG        Specify region to bench network (Valid ARG: as, af, eu, na, sa, oc, mix)
  -f, --disk=ARG          Specify what disk to bench (e.g. /dev/nvme0np3 or /dev/sda3)
  -s, --speedtest         Prefer speedtest in place of iperf3
  -i, --show-ip           Display server public IP address
  -p, --parse-only        Only parse basic information (equal to -ndg)
  -h, --help              Display this help section
  -v, --version           Display version

Feature

• Basic server information, this include but not limited to:
  • Operating System
  • CPU Model
  • CPU Core Count
  • Virtualization used
  • Disk (Count and Usage)
  • Memory (Count and Usage)
  • Swap size
• IPv4 Check
• IPv6 Check
• Server Geolocation
• Server Uptime
• Fallback to wget if curl is not installed (this applied to Debian based system, where curl is not installed by default)
• POSIX compliant, meaning in theory it should work on all platform that enforce POSIX. _{See Portability}
• Bench multiple disk at one time
• Ability to pick iperf region
• JSON Output
• Colored Output

Portability

Below is list of shell which benchy has been tested on.

Shell	Status
Bash	Work without issues
Ash	Work without issues
Dash	Work without issues
ksh	Work without issues
mksh	Work without issues
zsh	Work without issues

Requirement

This section covers various Linux Distribution known to work, each test conducted on clean LXC container.

Distribution	Minimal Version	fio	iperf3	Geekbench
Ubuntu	16.04	✔️	✔	✔
Debian	7	✔	✔	✔
CentOS	7	✔	✔	✔
RockyLinux	8	✔	✔	✔
Alma Linux	8.3	✔	✔	✔
Alpine Linux	3.11	✔	✔	❌
Fedora	6	✔	✔	✔
openSUSE Leap	15.1	✔	✔	✔
Arch Linux	2021.12.01	✔️	✔	✔

*BSD is not Linux, consequently benchy is not guarranted to work there.

Example Output

This is sample output of benchy in action:

$ wget -qO- benchy.pw | bash -s -- -oks --region=asia
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
#             Benchy v2.2               #
#    https://github.com/L1so/benchy     #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
#        03 Nov 2022 19:55 WIB          #
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #

Server Insight                                  Hardware Information
---------------------                           ---------------------
OS         : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS                 Model       : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Location   : Singapore                          Core        : 8 @ 3393.622 MHz
Kernel     : 5.4.0-131-generic                  AES-NI      : ✔ Enabled
Uptime     : 0 days, 5 hrs, 57 mins, 19 secs    VM-x/AMD-V  : ✔ Enabled
Virt       : kvm                                Swap        : 0.0 KiB   

Disk & Memory Usage                             Network Data
---------------------                           ---------------------
Disk       : 116.1 GiB                          ASN         : AS142594  
Disk Usage : 8.9 GiB (8% Used)                  ISP         : SpeedyPage Ltd
Mem        : 7.7 GiB                            IPv4        : ✔ Enabled
Mem Usage  : 0.9 GiB (12% Used)                 IPv6        : ✔ Enabled

Disk Performance Check (ext4 on /dev/vda1)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Size | Read        | Write       | Total       |       IOPS (R,W,T)       |
+===========================================================================+
| 4k   | 428.78 MB/s | 429.91 MB/s | 858.69 MB/s | 109.8k | 110.0k | 219.8k |
| 64k  | 2.20 GB/s   | 2.21 GB/s   | 4.42 GB/s   | 36.1k  | 36.3k  | 72.5k  |
| 512k | 2.02 GB/s   | 2.13 GB/s   | 4.15 GB/s   | 4.1k   | 4.4k   | 8.5k   |
| 1m   | 2.17 GB/s   | 2.31 GB/s   | 4.48 GB/s   | 2.2k   | 2.4k   | 4.6k   |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Ookla Network Speedtest (Region: Asia)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Provider    | Location          | Download     | Upload       | Data Used | Latency   |
+=======================================================================================+
| Biznet      | Jakarta, ID       |  860.9 Mb/s  |  922.9 Mb/s  |    2.5 GB |   12.0 ms |
| Exabytes    | Kuala Lumpur, MY  |  572.2 Mb/s  |  934.2 Mb/s  |    1.8 GB |    8.4 ms |
| SingTel     | Singapore, SG     |  861.1 Mb/s  |  920.2 Mb/s  |    2.1 GB |    1.8 ms |
| GLBB        | Tokyo, JP         |   16.2 Mb/s  |   37.1 Mb/s  |    0.1 GB |   80.5 ms |
| Airtel      | Chennai, IN       |  765.1 Mb/s  |  926.3 Mb/s  |    2.4 GB |   32.8 ms |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------+
| Geekbench 5.4.5 Tryout for Linux x86 (64-bit) |
+===============================================+
| Single Core        | 1306                     |
| Multi Core         | 7176                     |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/18406347 |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Benchy time spent  | 4 Minutes 14 Seconds     |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Benchy result      | http://sprunge.us/SyeE9m |
+-----------------------------------------------+