mitmproxy/test/bench/README.md

This directory contains an addon for benchmarking and profiling mitmproxy. At the moment, this is simply to give developers a quick way to see the impact of their work. Eventually, this might grow into a performance dashboard with historical data, so we can track performance over time.

Setup

Install the following tools:

https://github.com/wg/wrk

go get github.com/cortesi/devd/cmd/devd

You may also want to install snakeviz to make viewing profiles easier:

pip install snakeviz

Now run the benchmark by loading the addon. A typical invocation is as follows:

mitmdump -p0 -q --set benchmark_save_path=/tmp/foo -s ./benchmark.py

This will start up the backend server, run the benchmark, save the results to /tmp/foo.bench and /tmp/foo.prof, and exit.