Setup:

• install Node v18

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.39.0/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install v18
nvm use v18

• install dependencies

npm install

• compile the contract

npx hardhat compile

• create the data/config.json file using the following template:

{
  "tpsServerHost": "0.0.0.0",
  "tpsServerPort": 8181,
  "endpoint": "https://rpc-dev.arthera.net",
  "deployer": {
    "address": "0x..................",
    "privateKey": "0x........................."
  },
  "fundSenders": true,
  "accounts": 100,
  "workers": 80,
  "sendRawTransaction": true,
  "timeout": 15000,
  "tokenMethod": "transferLoop",
  "tokenAmountToMint": 1000000000,
  "tokenTransferMultiplier": 1,
  "tokenAssert": true,
  "transactions": 1000,
  "gasLimit": "200000",
  "txpoolMaxLength": -1,
  "txpoolMultiplier": 2,
  "txpoolLimit": 7500,
  "checkersInterval": 250,
  "estimate": false,
  "verbose": true
}

Running:

To run the TPS server for EVM (Frontier):

npm run evm

After the initial setup is done, you can trigger an "auto" run by:

curl -X GET "http://0.0.0.0:8181/auto"

That command will send 50,000 transactions to the target using 80 threads (set by transactions and workers in data/config.json).

You can send requests via artillery by running:

artillery quick --count 50 --num 500 http://0.0.0.0:8181/sendRawTransaction

This command will send 25,000 requests to /sendRawTransaction (50 "users" sending 500 requests each).

You can also use wrk to send requests (install it using apt install wrk):

wrk -t 50 -c 50 -d 600 --latency --timeout 1m http://0.0.0.0:8181/sendRawTransaction

This command will spawn 50 threads to send requests to /sendRawTransaction in 600 seconds.