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Benchmark tools

Sysbench

It supports testing CPU, memory, File I/O, mutex performance.

Note: Sysbench is compiled without MySQL support.

Example: sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=1 --cpu-max-prime=20000 run

Find more examples here.

mbw - Memory BandWidth

Checks the RAM speed.

mbw arraysize_in_MiB

Example: mbw 100

iperf - perform network throughput tests

Test network speed.

Example: iperf -t 60 -c ip -P n

hdparam

Test drive speed.

Example HDD: hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

Example SD card: hdparm -Tt /dev/mmcblk0

nmon - Nigel's performance Monitor

This tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information in one go.

Start 'nmon'.

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