torrent-tracker-tester

Tool to make fake concurrent requests to BitTorrent Trackers

While developing a tracker is important to test it at scale with lots of concurrent clients reaching for different torrents. This tool helps with that! It supports both HTTP and UDP trackers. IPv4 only thought (for now). Useful statistic are printed out every few seconds while requests fly and try to take down the server.

Setup

You can compile it with

go build

and executing torrent-tracker-tester or run the project directly using

go run main.go

Usage

The current options are (displayed when using parameter -help):

  -clientpool int
        Size of the peer pool (default 50)
  -concurrent int
        Number of concurrent requests (default 1)
  -duration string
        Duration to run (e.g., 1m, 1h, 30s)
  -hashpool int
        Size of the info_hash pool (default 100)
  -http-tracker string
        HTTP Tracker URL
  -seeders float
        Probability of generating seeder requests (0.0-1.0) (default 0.3)
  -udp-tracker string
        UDP Tracker URL
  -verbose
        Verbose output (default true)

Example command-line to get going:

go run main.go -concurrent=100 -http-tracker="http://localhost:6969/announce" -duration=0 -verbose=false -hashpool=100000 -clientpool=10000

Example statistics displayed:

Statistics:
  Requests: 86746 total, 85839 successful (99.0%), 907 failed
  Types: 25947 seeders (29.9%), 60799 leechers (70.1%)
  Success rates: seeders 98.9%, leechers 99.0%
  Average request time: 63.106593ms
  Average peers per response: 21.5