Benchmarks

Test data

Used the following script to generate the goss.json file goss_generate_bench.sh, which adds the following tests:

• 100 files/dirs from /etc/
• All users in /etc/passwd
• All groups in /etc/groups
• Ports 1-100 for tcp and tcp6
• 20 rpms

Results

New Laptop

Sample benchmark on my laptop

Hardware

• XPS 15 9550
• OS: Fedora 23
  • FS: xfs

Results

$ time goss validate --format nagios
GOSS OK - Count: 1122, Failed: 0, Duration: 0.052s

real	0m0.057s
user	0m0.104s
sys	0m0.091s

# Performance after dropping fs cache 
$ sudo bash -c 'sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ time goss validate --format nagios
GOSS OK - Count: 1122, Failed: 0, Duration: 0.060s

real	0m0.085s
user	0m0.134s
sys	0m0.093s

Old Laptop

Sample benchmark on my laptop.

Hardware:

• laptop: MSI-GT683DXR
• storage: Crucial M4 ssd
• OS: fedora 20

Results

# With warm FS cache the results are near instantaneous
$ time goss validate --format nagios
GOSS OK - Count: 1049, Failed: 0, Duration: 0.080s

real    0m0.087s
user    0m0.189s
sys     0m0.152s


# Performance after dropping fs cache
$ sudo bash -c 'sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
$ time goss validate --format nagios
GOSS OK - Count: 1049, Failed: 0, Duration: 2.249s

real    0m2.289s
user    0m0.195s
sys     0m0.288s