package main import ( "context" "fmt" "math" "time" e2e "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/test/e2e/pkg" "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/types" ) // Benchmark is a simple function for fetching, calculating and printing // the following metrics: // 1. Average block production time // 2. Block interval standard deviation // 3. Max block interval (slowest block) // 4. Min block interval (fastest block) // // Metrics are based of the `benchmarkLength`, the amount of consecutive blocks // sampled from in the testnet func Benchmark(testnet *e2e.Testnet, benchmarkLength int64) error { block, _, err := waitForHeight(testnet, 0) if err != nil { return err } logger.Info("Beginning benchmark period...", "height", block.Height) // wait for the length of the benchmark period in blocks to pass. We allow 5 seconds for each block // which should be sufficient. waitingTime := time.Duration(benchmarkLength*5) * time.Second endHeight, err := waitForAllNodes(testnet, block.Height+benchmarkLength, waitingTime) if err != nil { return err } logger.Info("Ending benchmark period", "height", endHeight) // fetch a sample of blocks blocks, err := fetchBlockChainSample(testnet, benchmarkLength) if err != nil { return err } // slice into time intervals and collate data timeIntervals := splitIntoBlockIntervals(blocks) testnetStats := extractTestnetStats(timeIntervals) testnetStats.startHeight = blocks[0].Header.Height testnetStats.endHeight = blocks[len(blocks)-1].Header.Height // print and return logger.Info(testnetStats.String()) return nil } type testnetStats struct { startHeight int64 endHeight int64 // average time to produce a block mean time.Duration // standard deviation of block production std float64 // longest time to produce a block max time.Duration // shortest time to produce a block min time.Duration } func (t *testnetStats) String() string { return fmt.Sprintf(`Benchmarked from height %v to %v Mean Block Interval: %v Standard Deviation: %f Max Block Interval: %v Min Block Interval: %v `, t.startHeight, t.endHeight, t.mean, t.std, t.max, t.min, ) } // fetchBlockChainSample waits for `benchmarkLength` amount of blocks to pass, fetching // all of the headers for these blocks from an archive node and returning it. func fetchBlockChainSample(testnet *e2e.Testnet, benchmarkLength int64) ([]*types.BlockMeta, error) { var blocks []*types.BlockMeta // Find the first archive node archiveNode := testnet.ArchiveNodes()[0] c, err := archiveNode.Client() if err != nil { return nil, err } // find the latest height ctx := context.Background() s, err := c.Status(ctx) if err != nil { return nil, err } to := s.SyncInfo.LatestBlockHeight from := to - benchmarkLength + 1 if from <= testnet.InitialHeight { return nil, fmt.Errorf("tesnet was unable to reach required height for benchmarking (latest height %d)", to) } // Fetch blocks for from < to { // fetch the blockchain metas. Currently we can only fetch 20 at a time resp, err := c.BlockchainInfo(ctx, from, min(from+19, to)) if err != nil { return nil, err } blockMetas := resp.BlockMetas // we receive blocks in descending order so we have to add them in reverse for i := len(blockMetas) - 1; i >= 0; i-- { if blockMetas[i].Header.Height != from { return nil, fmt.Errorf("node gave us another header. Wanted %d, got %d", from, blockMetas[i].Header.Height, ) } from++ blocks = append(blocks, blockMetas[i]) } } return blocks, nil } func splitIntoBlockIntervals(blocks []*types.BlockMeta) []time.Duration { intervals := make([]time.Duration, len(blocks)-1) lastTime := blocks[0].Header.Time for i, block := range blocks { // skip the first block if i == 0 { continue } intervals[i-1] = block.Header.Time.Sub(lastTime) lastTime = block.Header.Time } return intervals } func extractTestnetStats(intervals []time.Duration) testnetStats { var ( sum, mean time.Duration std float64 max = intervals[0] min = intervals[0] ) for _, interval := range intervals { sum += interval if interval > max { max = interval } if interval < min { min = interval } } mean = sum / time.Duration(len(intervals)) for _, interval := range intervals { diff := (interval - mean).Seconds() std += math.Pow(diff, 2) } std = math.Sqrt(std / float64(len(intervals))) return testnetStats{ mean: mean, std: std, max: max, min: min, } } func min(a, b int64) int64 { if a > b { return b } return a }