Current version always available at https://github.com/n-st/nench
IPv4- and v6-enabled download at http://wget.racing/nench.sh
- loosely based on the established freevps.us/bench.sh
- includes CPU and ioping measurements
- reduced number of speedtests (9 x 100 MB), while retaining useful European and North American POPs
- runs IPv6 speedtest by default (if the server has IPv6 connectivity)
- has a 10-second timeout for each speedtest, so you don't end up waiting 10
minutes for that one slow speedtest from halfway around the globe — but
thanks to the power of
curl -w, you still get to see what speed your server achieved during those 10 seconds - successfully tested on Arch Linux, Debian, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu
The script was originally intended to be used only by me, so I didn't put much
effort into ensuring safety, security, and interoperability.
I welcome any improvements, just send me a pull request.
You've probably noticed that the usage examples below have you directly run a script from an unauthenticated source (as so many "easy-install" and benchmark scripts do).
I didn't think I'd have to mention that this is a potential security risk — really, if you're at the point where you're benchmarking Linux VMs, I would assume you know how much harm a rogue shell script could potentially do to your system…
What's more, nench.sh downloads a statically built binary to run the IO
latency tests. I assure you it is and always will be a clean unmodified build
of ioping, but how do you know you can trust me?
So, basically: use nench.sh at your own risk, and preferably not on
production systems (which is a bad idea anyway, because it will hammer your
harddisk and network for up to several minutes).
(curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log
(wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log
Output from a VPS hosted with Vultr in Frankfurt:
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nench.sh v2017.05.08 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2017-05-08 20:36:54 UTC
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Processor: Virtual CPU a7769a6388d5
CPU cores: 1
Frequency: 2394.454 MHz
RAM: 494M
Swap: 871M
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64
Disks:
vda 20G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
4.183 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
6.830 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.636 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 148.6 us / 280.9 us / 9.22 ms / 234.7 us
ioping: sequential speed
generated 2.15 k requests in 5.00 s, 536.2 MiB, 428 iops, 107.2 MiB/s
dd test
1st run: 339.51 MiB/s
2nd run: 345.23 MiB/s
3rd run: 342.37 MiB/s
average: 342.37 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 108.61.179.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 205.34 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 140.55 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 0.08 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 0.17 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 11.13 MiB/s
IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2001:19f0:6c01:xxxx
Leaseweb (NL): 101.06 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 2.89 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 0.18 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 9.84 MiB/s
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