File: //usr/share/doc/pv/benchmark.sh
#!/bin/bash
#
# Benchmark the read/write performance of pv by looking at the number of
# read() and write() calls and the average amount of data transferred each
# time, as suggested by Ville Herva <Ville.Herva@iki.fi>.
#
test_input=$(mktemp /tmp/pvbench1XXXXXX)
strace_output=$(mktemp /tmp/pvbench2XXXXXX)
trap 'rm -f ${test_input} ${strace_output}' EXIT
pv=${pv:-./pv}
test -x "${pv}" || pv="pv"
dd if=/dev/zero of="${test_input}" bs=1k count=1k >/dev/null 2>&1
echo -e "Buf(k)\tRate(k)\tReads\tRsize\tWrites\tWsize"
for ((buffer=100; buffer<=1000; buffer+=100)); do
for ((rate=100; rate<=1000; rate+=100)); do
rateparm="-L ${rate}k"
test ${rate} -eq 0 && rateparm=""
strace -tt -o "${strace_output}" \
"${pv}" "${rateparm}" -B "${buffer}k" \
-f < "${test_input}" > /dev/null 2>&1
rdata=$(
awk '$2~/^read\(0,/{c++;t+=$NF}END{print c "\t" t/c}' \
"${strace_output}"
)
wdata=$(
awk '$2~/^write\(1,/{c++;t+=$NF}END{print c "\t" t/c}' \
"${strace_output}"
)
echo -e "${buffer}\t${rate}\t${rdata}\t${wdata}"
done
done
# EOF