Measure network performance. In addition to standard ICMP ping functionality, PsPing can report the latency of connecting to TCP ports, the latency of TCP round-trip communication between systems, and the TCP bandwidth available to a connection between systems. Besides obtaining min, max, and average values in 0.01ms resolution, you can also use PsPing to generate histograms of the results that are easy to import into a spreadsheet.
Syntax (ICMP ping)
psping [[-6]|[-4]] [-h [buckets]] [-i interval] [-l requestsize
[-q] [-t|-n count] [-w count] destination
Key
-h Print histogram (default bucket count is 20).
-i Interval in seconds. Specify 0 for fast ping.
-l Request size.
-n Number of pings.
-q Don't output during pings.
-t Ping until stopped with Ctrl+C and type Ctrl+Break for statistics.
-w Warmup with the specified number of iterations (default is 1).
-4 Force using IPv4.
-6 Force using IPv6. For high-speed ping tests use -q and -i 0.
-? I Usage for ICMP ping.
Syntax (TCP ping)
psping [[-6]|[-4]] [-h [buckets]] [-i interval] [-l requestsize
[-q] [-t|-n count] [-w count] destination:destport
Key
-h Print histogram (default bucket count is 20).
-i Interval in seconds. Specify 0 for fast ping.
-l Request size.
-n Number of pings.
-q Don't output during pings.
-t Ping until stopped with Ctrl+C and type Ctrl+Break for statistics.
-w Warmup with the specified number of iterations (default is 1).
-4 Force using IPv4.
-6 Force using IPv6. For high-speed ping tests use -q and -i 0.
-? T Usage for TCP ping.
Syntax (TCP latency)
server: psping [[-6]|[-4]] -s source:sourceport client: psping
[[-6]|[-4]] [-h [buckets]] [-r] -l requestsize]
-n count [-w count] destination:destport
Key
-h Print histogram (default bucket count is 20).
-l Request size.
-n Number of sends/receives.
-r Receive from the server instead of sending.
-w Warmup with the specified number of iterations (default is 5).
-4 Force using IPv4.
-6 Force using IPv6.
-? L Usage for Latency test.
The server can serve both latency and bandwidth tests and remains active until you terminate it with Control-C.
Syntax (TCP bandwidth)
server: psping [[-6]|[-4]] -s source:sourceport client: psping
[[-6]|[-4]] -b [-h [buckets]] [-r] -l requestsize -n count
[-i outstanding] [-w count] destination:destport
Key
-b Bandwidth test.
-h Print histogram (default bucket count is 20).
-i Number of outstanding I/Os (default is min of 16 and 2x CPU cores).
-l Request size.
-n Number of sends/receives.
-r Receive from the server instead of sending.
-w Warmup for the specified iterations (default is 2x CPU cores).
-4 Force using IPv4.
-6 Force using IPv6.
-? B Usage for Bandwidth test.
The server can serve both latency and bandwidth tests and remains active until you terminate it with Control-C.
-accepteula Suppress the display of the license dialog.
Installation: Copy PsPing onto your executable path. Typing "psping" will display help.
When launched for the first time, PsPing will create the regkey
HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsPing\EulaAccepted=0x01
Examples:
Execute an ICMP ping test for 10 iterations with 3 warmup iterations:
psping -n 10 -w 3 workstation64
To execute a TCP connect test, specify the port number. The following command executes connect attempts against the target as quickly as possible, only printing a summary when finished with the 100 iterations and 1 warmup iteration:
psping -n 100 -i 0 -q workstation64:80
To configure a server for latency and bandwidth tests, simply specify the -s option and the source address and port the server will bind to:
psping -s 10.5.2.2:5000
A buffer size is required to perform a TCP latency test. This example measures the round trip latency of sending an 8KB packet to the target server, printing a histogram with 100 buckets when completed:
psping -l 8192 -n 10000 -h 100 192.168.2.2:5000
This is the same command except with a -b option, which executed against the same server performs a bandwidth test. Note that the test must run for at least one second after warmup for a histogram to generate:
psping -b -l 8192 -n 10000 -h 100 192.168.2.2:5000
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Equivalent bash command (Linux):
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