Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure various aspects of networking performance. Currently,
its focus is on bulk data transfer and request/response performance using either TCP or UDP, and the
Berkeley Sockets interface. In addition, tests for DLPI, and Unix Domain Sockets, tests for IPv6 may be
conditionally compiled-in.
GLOBALOPTIONS-4 Use AF_INET (aka IPv4) addressing for the control and possibly data connections.
-6 Use AF_INET6 (aka IPv6) addressing for the control and possibly data connections.
-asizespec
Alter the send and receive buffer alignments on the local system. This defaults to 8 bytes.
-Asizespec
As -a, but for the remote system.
-Bbrandstr
Add brandstr to the output of a test with banners disabled.
-c[rate]
Request CPU utilization and service demand calculations for the local system. If the optional rate
parameter is specified, netperf will use that instead of calculating the rate itself.
-C[rate]
As -c, but for the remote system.
-d Increase the quantity of debugging output displayed during a test (possibly at the expense of
performance).
-D[secs,units](*)
Display interim results at least every secs seconds uning units as the initial guess for units per
second. This is only available when netperf has been configured with --enable-demo.
-fGMKgmk
Change the units of measure for *_STREAM tests. Capital letters are powers of two, lowercase are
powers of ten.
-Ffill_file
Pre-fill the send buffers with data from the named file. This is intended to provide a means for
avoiding buffers that are filled with data which is trivially easy to compress. A good choice for
a file that should be present on any system is this manpage - netperf.man. Other files may be
provided as part of the distribution.
-h Display a usage string, and exit.
-Hname|ip,family(*)
Set the hostname (or IP address) and address family to use to establish the control connection to
the remote system. Passing a single name with no comma will only set remote_host and will leave
selection of address family for the control connection to the stack or by a -4 -r -6 command line
option.
-imax,min
Set the maximum and minimum number of iterations when trying to reach certain confidence levels.
-j Instruct netperf to calculate additional statistics on timing when running an omni test. Display
of said statistics will depend on the presence of the corresponding output selectors in the output
selection. These are MIN_LATENCY, MAX_LATENCY, P50_LATENCY, P90_LATENCY, P99_LATENCY, MEAN_LATENCY
and STDDEV_LATENCY.
-Ilvl,[,intvl]
Specify the confidence level (either 95 or 99 - 99 is the default) and the width of the confidence
interval as a percentage (default 10)
-ltestlen
Specify the length of the test (default 10 seconds). A negative value sets the number of
request/response transactions, or the number of bytes for a stream test.
-Lname|ip,fam(*)
Set the local name|IP and/or address family for the socket used for the control connection to the
remote netserver.
-nnumcpus
Specify the number of CPU's in the system on those systems for which netperf has no way to find
the number of CPU's programatically.
-N This option will tell netperf to not establish a control connection to a remote netserver.
Instead it will try to establish a data connection directly, using only the information supplied
by the command line parameters and/or internal defaults. Unless other ports are provided by the
command line, by default the data connection will be to the "discard" port for a "STREAM" or
"SENDFILE" test, the "echo" port for an "RR" test or the "chargen" port for a "MAERTS" test.
-osizespec
Set an offset from the alignment specified with -a.
-Osizespec
As -o, but for the remote system.
-pportnum,locport(*)
Direct the control connection to a netserver listening on the specified port, rather than using a
"netperf" entry in /etc/services or the internal default (port 12865). If ",locport" is specified
the control connection will be established from that local port number. Specifying a single port
number with no comma will specify only the remote netserver port number and will leave local port
number selection to the stack.
-P0|1 Show (1) or suppress (0) the test banner.
-S This option will cause an attempt to set SO_KEEPALIVE on the ends of the data connection for tests
using BSD Sockets. It will be made on the netperf side of classic tests, and both netperf and
netserver side of an omni or migrated test.
-sseconds
This will cause netperf to sleep "seconds" seconds before transferring data over the data
connection.
-ttestname
Specify the test to perform. Valid testnames include, but are not limited to, nor always
compiled-in:
TCP_STREAMTCP_SENDFILETCP_MAERTSTCP_RRTCP_CRRUDP_STREAMUDP_RRDLCO_STREAMDLCO_RRDLCL_STREAMDLCL_RRSTREAM_STREAMSTREAM_RRDG_STREAMDG_RRSCTP_STREAMSCTP_STREAM_MANYSCTP_RRSCTP_RR_MANYLOC_CPUREM_CPU-Tlcpu,remcpu
Request that netperf be bound to CPU lcpu and/or netserver be bound to CPU rcpu.
-vverbosity
Set the verbosity level for the test (only with -P).
-V Display the netperf version and exit.
TESTSPECIFICOPTIONS-h Display a usage string based on the test name set with -t, and exit.
Please consult the netperf manual CareandFeedingofNetperf2.5.X (doc/netperf.[pdf|html|txt])
for more information. Or you can join and send email to netperf-talk@netperf.org.
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