Network stress testing
This guide assumes that:
You have a working ZChains network up and running
Both your JSON-RPC and GRPC endpoints are reachable
The ZChains Loadbot is a helper utility that is meant to stress test a ZChains network.
Currently, it supports 2 modes:
transfer - mode that does stress testing using fund-transfer transactions. [Default].
deploy - mode that deploys specified smart contracts with each transaction.
The transfer mode assumes that there is a sender account that has initial funds to conduct the loadbot run.
The sender's account address and private key need to be set in the environment variables:
The deploy mode conducts contract deployment with each new transaction in the loadbot run. The contract being deployed can be specified using , or if the contract path is omitted, a default Greeter.sol is used instead.
This section covers some basic terminology regarding the loadbot configuration.
count - The number of transactions to be submitted in the specified mode
tps - The number of transactions that should be submitted to the node per second
Start the loadbot
As an example, here is a valid command you can use to run the loadbot using two premined accounts:
You should get a result similar to this on your terminal :