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+## Usage
+
+Benchmark 3-member etcd cluster to get its read and write performance.
+
+## Instructions
+
+1. Start 3-member etcd cluster on 3 machines
+2. Update `$leader` and `$servers` in the script
+3. Run the script in a separate machine
+
+## Caveat
+
+1. Set environment variable `GOMAXPROCS` as the number of available cores to maximize CPU resources for both etcd member and bench process.
+2. Set the number of open files per process as 10000 for amounts of client connections for both etcd member and benchmark process.
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+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+leader=http://localhost:2379
+# assume three servers
+servers=( http://localhost:2379 http://localhost:22379 http://localhost:32379 )
+
+keyarray=( 64 256 )
+
+for keysize in ${keyarray[@]}; do
+
+  echo write, 1 client, $keysize key size, to leader
+  ./hey -m PUT -n 10 -d value=`head -c $keysize < /dev/zero | tr '\0' '\141'` -c 1 -T application/x-www-form-urlencoded $leader/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+
+  echo write, 64 client, $keysize key size, to leader
+  ./hey -m PUT -n 640 -d value=`head -c $keysize < /dev/zero | tr '\0' '\141'` -c 64 -T application/x-www-form-urlencoded $leader/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+
+  echo write, 256 client, $keysize key size, to leader
+  ./hey -m PUT -n 2560 -d value=`head -c $keysize < /dev/zero | tr '\0' '\141'` -c 256 -T application/x-www-form-urlencoded $leader/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+
+  echo write, 64 client, $keysize key size, to all servers
+  for i in ${servers[@]}; do
+    ./hey -m PUT -n 210 -d value=`head -c $keysize < /dev/zero | tr '\0' '\141'` -c 21 -T application/x-www-form-urlencoded $i/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo &
+  done
+  # wait for all heys to start running
+  sleep 3
+  # wait for all heys to finish
+  for pid in $(pgrep 'hey'); do
+    while kill -0 "$pid" 2> /dev/null; do
+      sleep 3
+    done
+  done
+
+  echo write, 256 client, $keysize key size, to all servers
+  for i in ${servers[@]}; do
+    ./hey -m PUT -n 850 -d value=`head -c $keysize < /dev/zero | tr '\0' '\141'` -c 85 -T application/x-www-form-urlencoded $i/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo &
+  done
+  sleep 3
+  for pid in $(pgrep 'hey'); do
+    while kill -0 "$pid" 2> /dev/null; do
+      sleep 3
+    done
+  done
+
+  echo read, 1 client, $keysize key size, to leader
+  ./hey -n 100 -c 1 $leader/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+
+  echo read, 64 client, $keysize key size, to leader
+  ./hey -n 6400 -c 64 $leader/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+
+  echo read, 256 client, $keysize key size, to leader
+  ./hey -n 25600 -c 256 $leader/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+
+  echo read, 64 client, $keysize key size, to all servers
+  # bench servers one by one, so it doesn't overload this benchmark machine
+  # It doesn't impact correctness because read request doesn't involve peer interaction.
+  for i in ${servers[@]}; do
+    ./hey -n 21000 -c 21 $i/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+  done
+
+  echo read, 256 client, $keysize key size, to all servers
+  for i in ${servers[@]}; do
+    ./hey -n 85000 -c 85 $i/v2/keys/foo | grep -e "Requests/sec" -e "Latency" -e "90%" | tr "\n" "\t" | xargs echo
+  done
+
+done