diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0adc23e..adc73d7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Project(Stasis)
 
 SET(PACKAGE_VERSION 1)
 
-SUBDIRS(test util)
+SUBDIRS(test util benchmarks)
 
 # Main decisions
 SET(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON)
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ if(NOT HAVE_STASIS)
   message(STATUS "stasis not found; only building client library")
 endif(NOT HAVE_STASIS)
 
-SET(CLIENT_LIBRARIES logstore_client)
+SET(CLIENT_LIBRARIES logstore_client pthread)
 
 IF ( "${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "GNU" )
   SET(COMMON_LIBRARIES logstore stasis m pthread stdc++)
diff --git a/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt b/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83a25e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CREATE_CLIENT_EXECUTABLE(tcpclient_noop)
diff --git a/benchmarks/tcpclient_noop.cpp b/benchmarks/tcpclient_noop.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc0838c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/tcpclient_noop.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/*
+ * tcpclient_noop.cpp
+ *
+ *  Created on: Feb 23, 2010
+ *      Author: sears
+ */
+
+#include "../tcpclient.h"
+#include "../network.h"
+#include "../datatuple.h"
+
+void usage(char * argv[]) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "usage %s numthreads threadopcount [host [port]]\n", argv[0]);
+}
+
+#include "../util/util_main.h"
+#include <sys/time.h>
+int threadopcount;
+
+int thrargc;
+char ** thrargv;
+
+void * worker (void * arg) {
+  logstore_handle_t * l = util_open_conn(thrargc-2, thrargv+2);
+  for(int i = 0; i < threadopcount; i++) {
+    datatuple * ret = logstore_client_op(l, OP_DBG_NOOP);
+    if(ret == NULL) {
+        perror("No-op failed"); return (void*)-1;
+    } else {
+        datatuple::freetuple(ret);
+    }
+  }
+  logstore_client_close(l);
+  return 0;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
+    if(argc < 3) {
+      usage(argv);
+      return 1;
+    }
+    thrargc = argc;
+    thrargv = argv;
+
+    int numthreads = atoi(argv[1]);
+    threadopcount = (atoi(argv[2])/numthreads);
+
+    pthread_t * threads = (pthread_t*)malloc(sizeof(*threads) * numthreads);
+
+    struct timeval start, stop;
+    gettimeofday(&start, 0);
+    for(int i = 0; i < numthreads; i++) {
+      pthread_create(&threads[i], 0, worker, 0);
+    }
+    int had_err = 0;
+    for(int i = 0; i < numthreads; i++) {
+      void * err;
+      pthread_join(threads[i], &err);
+      if(err) {
+        had_err = 1;
+      }
+    }
+    gettimeofday(&stop,0);
+    if(!had_err) {
+      double startf = ((double)start.tv_sec) + (double)start.tv_usec / 1000000.0;
+      double stopf = ((double)stop.tv_sec) + (double)stop.tv_usec / 1000000.0;
+      double elapsed = stopf -startf;
+      printf("%5d threads, %6d ops/thread, %6.2f seconds, %7.1f ops/thread-second, %6.1f ops/sec\n",
+          numthreads, threadopcount, elapsed, ((double)threadopcount)/elapsed, (((double)numthreads)*(double)threadopcount)/elapsed);
+    }
+    free(threads);
+    return 0;
+
+}
+
diff --git a/logserver.cpp b/logserver.cpp
index 8b2cf20..03de589 100644
--- a/logserver.cpp
+++ b/logserver.cpp
@@ -796,6 +796,9 @@ int op_dbg_drop_database(pthread_data * data) {
 	fprintf(stderr, "...DROP DATABASE COMPLETE\n");
 	return writeoptosocket(*(data->workitem), LOGSTORE_RESPONSE_SUCCESS);
 }
+int op_dbg_noop(pthread_data * data) {
+  return writeoptosocket(*(data->workitem), LOGSTORE_RESPONSE_SUCCESS);
+}
 
 int dispatch_request(network_op_t opcode, datatuple * tuple, datatuple * tuple2, pthread_data* data) {
 	int err = 0;
@@ -841,6 +844,9 @@ int dispatch_request(network_op_t opcode, datatuple * tuple, datatuple * tuple2,
     {
     	err = op_dbg_drop_database(data);
     }
+    else if(opcode == OP_DBG_NOOP) {
+      err = op_dbg_noop(data);
+    }
     return err;
 }
 
diff --git a/network.h b/network.h
index 4da28b3..1d566c5 100644
--- a/network.h
+++ b/network.h
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ static const network_op_t OP_STAT_PERF_REPORT    = 15;
 static const network_op_t OP_STAT_HISTOGRAM      = 16;  // Return N approximately equal size partitions (including split points + cardinalities)  N=1 estimates table cardinality.
 
 
-static const network_op_t OP_DBG_DROP_DATABASE            = 17;
+static const network_op_t OP_DBG_DROP_DATABASE        = 17;
 static const network_op_t OP_DBG_BLOCKMAP             = 18;
-static const network_op_t LOGSTORE_LAST_REQUEST_CODE  = 18;
+static const network_op_t OP_DBG_NOOP                 = 19;
+static const network_op_t LOGSTORE_LAST_REQUEST_CODE  = 19;
 
 //error codes
 static const network_op_t LOGSTORE_FIRST_ERROR  = 27;