How to measure the QPS of the server?

The code below is a simple reactor sample. Now I need to measure its QPS and performance, but I don't know how to do it. I only have less than five virtual machines. Could I simulate more than 100,000 clients to test my server?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <libgen.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <sys/epoll.h>
#include <pthread.h>

#define MAX_EVENT_NUMBER 1024
#define BUFFER_SIZE 1024

#define ONE_SHOT true
#define NOT_ONE_SHOT false

struct data {
    int epollfd;
    int sockfd;
};

void setnonblockling(int fd)
{
    int fd_option = fcntl(fd, F_GETFL);
    fd_option |= O_NONBLOCK;
    fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, fd_option);
}

void add_fd(int epollfd, int fd, bool flag)
{
    struct epoll_event event;
    event.data.fd = fd;
    event.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET;   //ET mode
    if (flag)
        event.events |= EPOLLONESHOT;

    epoll_ctl(epollfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, fd, &event);
    setnonblockling(fd);
}

void reset_oneshot(int epollfd, int fd)
{
    struct epoll_event event;
    event.data.fd = fd;
    event.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET | EPOLLONESHOT;
    epoll_ctl(epollfd, EPOLL_CTL_MOD, fd, &event);
}

void *threadMain(void *instance)
 {
    struct data *data = (struct data *)instance;
    int epollfd = data->epollfd;
    int sockfd = data->sockfd;
    pthread_t pid = pthread_self(); //pid or tid, confused

    printf("start new thread %u to recv data on fd: %d\n", pid, sockfd);
    char buf[BUFFER_SIZE];
    memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));

    for(;;) {
        int n = recv(sockfd, buf, BUFFER_SIZE-1, 0);
        if (n == 0) {
            close(sockfd);
            printf("foreiner closed the connection\n");
           break;
        }
        else if (n < 0) {
            if (errno == EAGAIN) {
                reset_oneshot(epollfd, sockfd);
                printf("EAGAIN. Read later\n");
                break;
            }
        }
        else {
            buf[n] = '\0';
            printf("thread %u get content: %s\n", pid, buf);
            printf("thread %u about to sleep\n", pid);
            sleep(5);
            printf("thread %u back from sleep\n", pid);
        }
    }

    printf("end thread %u receiving data on fd: %d\n", pid, sockfd);
}


int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    if (argc <= 1) {
        printf("usage: %s port_number [ip_address]\n", basename(argv[0]));

    }

    int ret;
    int listenfd;
    int port = atoi(argv[1]);
    struct sockaddr_in address;
    bzero(&address, sizeof(address));
    address.sin_family = AF_INET;
    if (argc == 3) {
        const char *ip = argv[2];
        inet_pton(AF_INET, ip, &address.sin_addr);
    }
    else {
        address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
    }
    address.sin_port = htons(port);
    printf("port = %d\n", port);
    listenfd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    assert(listenfd >= 0);

    ret = bind(listenfd, (struct sockaddr *)&address, sizeof(address));
    assert(ret != -1);

    ret = listen(listenfd, 5);
    assert(ret != -1);

    struct epoll_event events[MAX_EVENT_NUMBER];
    int epollfd = epoll_create(5);
    assert(epollfd != -1);

    add_fd(epollfd, listenfd, NOT_ONE_SHOT);

    while(1) {
        int fd_number = epoll_wait(epollfd, events, MAX_EVENT_NUMBER, -1); 
        if (fd_number < 0) {
            perror("epoll wait failed\n");
            break;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < fd_number; i++) {
            int sockfd = events[i].data.fd;
            if (sockfd == listenfd) {
                printf("new data incoming\n");
                struct sockaddr_in client_addr;
                socklen_t client_socklen = sizeof(client_addr);
                int connfd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*)&client_addr, &client_socklen);
                add_fd(epollfd, connfd, ONE_SHOT);
            }
            else if (events[i].events & EPOLLIN) {
                pthread_t tid;
                struct data instance;
                instance.epollfd = epollfd;
                instance.sockfd = sockfd;
                pthread_create(&tid, NULL, threadMain, (void *)&instance);
            }
            else {
                printf("something else happened\n");
            }
        }
    }

    close(listenfd);
    return 0;
}

I can run about five clients on my five machines. But it is too limited to test the qps and performance of the server. I have the same or similar problems when working.