Transaction Generator: Test Cases

This page describes the first benchmarking results of transaction generator.

Working system

The first results was collected on this computer:

1. CPU: Intel Core i7-7500U 2.70GHz
2. Memory: 16 GB DDR4
3. OS: Debian 10 amd64

Run commands

Run a cluster:

$ cd cardano-node
$ tmux
$ ./scripts/shelley-testnet.sh

Run a generator (in another terminal):

$ cd cardano-node
$ ./scripts/generator.sh -n 0

Settings #1

1. Each benchmarking transaction has 1 input and 1 output, with fixed amount of money (100 ADA).
2. Slot duration = 20 sec.
3. txNumServiceTime = 0.01 sec.

Results #1

Txs number	Handling time	Avg. memory usage	Avg. CPU usage
10k	05:40	238514	85%
50k	26:28	663014	84%

Settings #2

1. Each benchmarking transaction has 1 input and 1 output, with fixed amount of money (100 ADA).
2. Slot duration = 20 sec.
3. txNumServiceTime = 0

Results #2

Txs number	Handling time	Avg. memory usage	Avg. CPU usage
10k	04:24	238514	85%
50k	20:10	663014	84%