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.TH "TALER-MERCHANT-BENCHMARK" "1" "Sep 18, 2019" "0.6pre1" "GNU Taler"
.SH NAME
taler-merchant-benchmark \- generate Taler-style benchmarking payments
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBtaler\-merchant\-benchmark\fP [\fIsubcommand\fP] [\fIoptions\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBtaler\-merchant\-benchmark\fP is a command line tool to populate your
merchant database with payments for benchmarking.
.SH SUBCOMMANDS
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.TP
.B ordinary
Generate normal payments: all the payments are performed (by the
default instance) and aggregated by the exchange.  Takes the following
options.
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.TP
.BI \-p \ PN\fP,\fB \ \-\-payments\-number\fB= PN
Perform PN many payments, defaults to 1.
.TP
.BI \-t \ TN\fP,\fB \ \-\-tracks\-number\fB= TN
Perform TN many tracking operations, defaults to 1.
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.TP
.B corner
Drive the generator to create unusual situations, like for example
leaving payments unaggregated, or using a non\-default merchant
instance.  Takes the following options.
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.TP
.BI \-t \ TC\fP,\fB \ \-\-two\-coins\fB= TC
Perform TC many payments that use two coins (normally, all the
payments use only one coin).  TC defaults to 1.
.TP
.BI \-i \ AI\fP,\fB \ \-\-alt\-instance\fB= AI
Use AI as the instance, instead of ‘default’ (which is the
default instance used.)
.TP
.BI \-u \ UN\fP,\fB \ \-\-unaggregated\-number\fB= UN
Generate UN payments that will be left unaggregated.  Note that
subsequent invocations of the generator may pick those
unaggregated payments and actually aggregated them.
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.SH COMMON OPTIONS
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.TP
.BI \-k \ K\fP,\fB \ \-\-currency\fB= K
Use currency K, mandatory.
.TP
.BI \-m \ URL\fP,\fB \ \-\-merchant\-url\fB= URL
Use URL as the merchant base URL during the benchmark.  The URL
is mainly used to download and pay for contracts.  Mandatory.
.TP
.BI \-b \ URL\fP,\fB \ \-\-bank\-url\fB= URL
Use URL as the bank’s base URL during the benchmark.  The URL is
used to test whether the bank is up and running.  Mandatory.
.TP
.BI \-c \ FILENAME\fP,\fB \ \-\-config\fB= FILENAME
Use the configuration and other resources for the merchant to
operate from FILENAME.
.TP
.B \-h\fP,\fB  \-\-help
Print short help on options.
.TP
.B \-v\fP,\fB  \-\-version
Print version information.
.TP
.BI \-l \ LF\fP,\fB \ \-\-logfile\fB= LF
Sends logs to file whose path is LF.
.TP
.BI \-L \ LOGLEVEL\fP,\fB \ \-\-log\fB= LOGLEVEL
Use loglevel LOGLEVEL.
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.SH BUGS
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Report bugs by using \fI\%https://gnunet.org/bugs/\fP or by sending electronic
mail to <\fI\%taler@gnu.org\fP>.
.SH SEE ALSO
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taler\-merchant\-dbinit(1), taler\-merchant\-tip\-enable(1), taler.conf(5)
.SH AUTHOR
GNU Taler contributors
.SH COPYRIGHT
2014, 2015, 2016 Florian Dold, Benedikt Muller, Sree Harsha Totakura, Christian Grothoff, Marcello Stanisci (GPLv3+ or GFDL 1.3+)
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