Particle based simulations are a very important part in the domain of Computational Science and Engineering and serve as the fundamentals of a diverse amount of simulations. The Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter is a state of the art project in the field of Molecular Dynamics software. The project has existed for quite some time now and has over the time been subject to a vast amount of changes and additions to its code base. The purpose of this work is to measure the performance of some of the commonly used simulation scenarios and to identify bottlenecks in the projects code base. Furthermore during the course of this work a new Feature for ESPResSo is developed which enables ESPResSo to natively measure the performance of code sections.