looking-up-ipfs

looking-up-ipfs

Wondering how well does IPFS' DHT code perform doing multiple operations concurrently? Multiple provides and retreivals? This repo contains the tools that you really need!

Features

• Basic command line cli to configure the study.
• Custom Fork of go-libp2p-kad-dht to extract metrics from the most common used operations.
• Basic csv exporter for the individual operations + the aggragation of the jobs.
• Simple visualization scripts in Jupyter Notebook.

Installation

You can install looking-up-ipfs using make:

make dependencies
make build

Usage

Here's how you can use the tool from the command line:

NAME:
   looking-up-ipfs - benchmarks the concurrency performance of IPFS DHT

USAGE:
   looking-up-ipfs [subcommands] [arguments]

COMMANDS:
   run      
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h  show help

Example:

mkdir results
./build/looking-up-ipfs run --lookups 75 --jobs 100 --output results/test

will produce something like this:

results/
├── 100_jobs_indv_provide_summary.csv
├── 100_jobs_indv_retrieval_summary.csv
├── 100_jobs_provide_jobs_summary.csv
└── 100_jobs_retrieval_jobs_summary.csv

Contributing

If you want to contribute to this project, please follow these guidelines:

• Fork the repository
• Create a new branch
• Make your changes
• Submit a pull request
• Bugs and Issues

If you encounter any bugs or issues, please report them here.

Contact

Author: Mikel Cortes (@cortze)

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or suggestions!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.