nench.sh ("new bench.sh")

Current version always available at https://github.com/n-st/nench

IPv4- and v6-enabled download at http://wget.racing/nench.sh

• loosely based on the established freevps.us/bench.sh
• includes CPU and ioping measurements
• reduced number of speedtests (9 x 100 MB), while retaining useful European and North American POPs
• runs IPv6 speedtest by default (if the server has IPv6 connectivity)
• has a 10-second timeout for each speedtest, so you don't end up waiting 10 minutes for that one slow speedtest from halfway around the globe — but thanks to the power of curl -w, you still get to see what speed your server achieved during those 10 seconds
• successfully tested on Arch Linux, Debian, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu

The script was originally intended to be used only by me, so I didn't put much effort into ensuring safety, security, and interoperability.
I welcome any improvements, just send me a pull request.

Disclaimer

You've probably noticed that the usage examples below have you directly run a script from an unauthenticated source (as so many "easy-install" and benchmark scripts do).

I didn't think I'd have to mention that this is a potential security risk — really, if you're at the point where you're benchmarking Linux VMs, I would assume you know how much harm a rogue shell script could potentially do to your system…

What's more, nench.sh downloads a statically built binary to run the IO latency tests. I assure you it is and always will be a clean unmodified build of ioping, but how do you know you can trust me?

So, basically: use nench.sh at your own risk, and preferably not on production systems (which is a bad idea anyway, because it will hammer your harddisk and network for up to several minutes).

Usage example

(curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log

(wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; wget -qO- wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log

Example output

Output from a VPS hosted with Vultr in Frankfurt:

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 nench.sh v2017.05.08 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2017-05-08 20:36:54 UTC
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Processor:    Virtual CPU a7769a6388d5
CPU cores:    1
Frequency:    2394.454 MHz
RAM:          494M
Swap:         871M
Kernel:       Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64

Disks:
vda  20G  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    4.183 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    6.830 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    1.636 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 148.6 us / 280.9 us / 9.22 ms / 234.7 us
ioping: sequential speed
    generated 2.15 k requests in 5.00 s, 536.2 MiB, 428 iops, 107.2 MiB/s

dd test
    1st run:    339.51 MiB/s
    2nd run:    345.23 MiB/s
    3rd run:    342.37 MiB/s
    average:    342.37 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    108.61.179.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         205.34 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        140.55 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   0.08 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      0.17 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         11.13 MiB/s

IPv6 speedtests
    your IPv6:    2001:19f0:6c01:xxxx

    Leaseweb (NL):        101.06 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   2.89 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      0.18 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         9.84 MiB/s
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