SysBench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool for evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system running a database under intensive load.
The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about system performance without setting up complex database benchmarks or even without installing a database at all.
Current features allow to test the following system parameters:
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file I/O performance
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scheduler performance
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memory allocation and transfer speed
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POSIX threads implementation performance
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database server performance