Sysbench

Sysbench can test performance:

• File I/O test
• CPU performance test
• Memory functions speed test
• Threads subsystem performance test
• Mutex performance test
• MySQL driver performance test
• PostgreSQL driver performance test

Installation:

sudo apt install sysbench

Single-core test:

sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=50000 --time=60 --num-threads=1 run

Multi-core test:

sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=50000 --time=60 --num-threads=$(nproc) run

hdparm - HDD/SSD storge tests

Install command line utilities to set and view hardware parameters and also can be used as a simple benchmarking tool:

sudo apt install hdparm -y

And run disk performance test:

sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

Where options:

• t - perform device read timings
• T - perform cache read timings
• /dev/sda - disk name in system

We can read detailed information about the drive, including SMART:

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda

iPerf3 - network performance

To measure network transfers between our two hosts, we can use iperf3. The application must be installed on the two hosts between which we will be checking bandwidth:

sudo apt-get install iperf3

On one of the machines, we need to install the app in server mode:

iperf3 -s

It will listen on port 5201 by default:

We can also run temporarily or permanently using systemctl:

sudo systemctl start iperf3    # service start
sudo systemctl status iperf3   # check service status
sudo systemctl stop iperf3     # service stop

sudo systemctl enable iperf3   # enable pernamently, automatically started on startup of the system
sudo systemctl disable iperf3  # disable pernamently

From the second host, we call the command indicates to the IP address of the first machine:

iperf3 -c $REMOTE_SERVER_IP

Commercial Geekbench

If we would like to compare our synthetic results with other computers then Geekbench is a good choice. Here we have the possibility to run both a free version and a more complex commercial.

Geekbench can be downloaded from the official website https://www.geekbench.com/. Instructions for installing and running the app can be found on the official website.

After launch, the application will perform a series of tests by default and generate link to page where our results will be saved:

Example link with results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9335877