Redis Load Test

A simple program to perform load testing against a redis instance

Requirements

• go compiler (only tested on go1.17)

Install

make build for docker installation

for local installation:

make build-local
mv redisLoadTest /usr/local/bin/

Commands

-host=string:string first string is host second is port
-username=string string of username
-password=string string of password
-db=int --not implemented yet
-initialize=bool defaults to false, initializes database
-rate=int defautls to 50 at int / second
-burst=bool defaults to true performs burst test along with steady rate test
-dbEntries=int defaults to 50000 number of database entries to add
-duration=int defaults to 10 for each test duration in seconds 

sample usage

redisLoadTest -host=MyCoolServer:6379 -initialize=true -rate=60 -duration=60