performance/

Performance testing

How to test your setup performance:

$ oc apply -f deployment.yml
$ oc get pods
NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
netobserv-ebpf-agent              1/1     Running   0          20s
packet-counter-7b6df8b766-dbv8d   1/1     Running   0          20s
$ oc logs -f packet-counter-7b6df8b766-dbv8d

In the Packet Counter logs, you will see the rate of received packets and flows:

2022/03/23 13:24:32 615.6 packets/s. 13.6 flows/s

To generate network packets, you can deploy the perftest-millionp.yml deployment file:

$ oc apply -f perftest-millionp.yml

You can adjust the number of replicas in the perftest-millionp.yml file, to add more/less load.

• perftest-millionp.yml is able to provide a high sustained rate of packets
• perftest-iperf.yml generates a higher throughtput (GB/s) but the number of packets is lower and less stable.