virginia cluster throughput experiment

README.md

@@ -5,4 +5,15 @@
 
 **Actor based implementation of the [Raft consensus algorithm](https://raft.github.io/)**.
 
+
+## Benchmarks
+
+The following benchmark is run on a MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and an 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 quad core processor. The cluster is composed of three Raft processes, with another process running concurrent client queries for a fixed duration.
+
 ![Benchmark](fixtures/benchmark.png)
+
+
+Version 0.1: gRPC unary rpc
+Version 0.2: gRPC bidirectional streaming for AppendEntries
+Version 0.3: experimental design and setup
+Version 0.4: aggregate append entries from clients

fixtures/.gitignore

@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ __pycache__
 # experimental stuff
 hosts.json
 geonet/configs/*.json
+geonet/configs/**/*.json
 metrics*.json

fixtures/geonet/fabfile.py

@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ def bench(config, clients):
     Run all servers on the host as well as benchmarks for the number of
     clients specified.
     """
+    clients = int(clients)
     name = addrs[env.host]
     command = []
 
@@ -214,7 +215,12 @@ def bench(config, clients):
 
     # Create the benchmark command
     if name == config["client"]:
-        args = make_args(c="config.json", n=10, r=500, o="metrics.json", d="20s")
+        if clients <= 10:
+            r = 500
+        else:
+            r = int(5000 / clients) + 1
+
+        args = make_args(c="config.json", n=clients, r=r, o="metrics.json", d="20s")
         command.append("raft bench {}".format(args))
 
     if len(command) == 0: