autobenchd man page - Copyright (2002) Julian T. J. Midgley <jtjm@xenoclast.org>

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autobenchd - distributed autobench daemon autobenchd [ --port port ] [ --bindaddr bindaddr ] [ --verbose ] [ --debug ]

autobenchd listens on the port and IP address specified on the command line (defaulting to port 4600 and INADDR_ANY if the command line options are omitted), and waits for commands from autobench_admin. When it receives these commands, it conducts a benchmark using httperf with the arguments specified by autobench_admin, parses the httperf results and returns a summary to autobench_admin. autobench_admin collates the results from several instances of autobenchd running on different machines, and writes the collated results to a file for analysis.

--port port Listen on port port. Defaults to 4600 if omitted.

--bindaddr bindaddr Bind to the address bindaddr, which may be given as either an IP address or hostname. INADDR_ANY may be specified as `0.0.0.0\'. Defaults to INADDR_ANY if omitted.

--verbose Enable verbose output, which logs progress to stderr (perhaps --speak would be a better name, since autobenchd is completely silent in normal operation).

--debug Send additional debugging output to stderr, including the raw results returned by httperf.

autobenchd --port 1234 --bindaddr 123.123.123.213 --verbose Starts autobenchd on port 1234, bound to 123.123.123.213, with progress reporting enabled.

autobench_admin(1), httperf(1) Julian T. J. Midgley <jtjm@xenoclast.org>