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# Transactions per second
Measure how many blocks per second are created on the _bigchain_ with a pre filled backlog.
1. Deploy an aws cluster http://bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy-on-aws.html
2. Copy `deploy-cluster-aws/hostlist.py` to `benchmarking-tests`
```bash
fab put_benchmark_utils
fab update_statsd_conf:<hostname of the statsd server>
fab prepare_backlog:<num txs per node> # wait for process to finish
fab start_bigchaindb
```