CPU and disk benchmarks

commands.sh

# install sysbench
$ apt-get install sysbench

# CPU benchmark, 1 thread
$ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run

# CPU benchmark, 64 threads
$ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=64 run

# Disk benchmark, random read. See .fio files in this gist
$ mkdir -p /tmp/fio-testing/data
$ fio random-read.fio

# Disk benchmark, real-world use case
$ fio server.fio

random-read.fio

[random-read]
rw=randread
size=128m
directory=/tmp/fio-testing/data

server.fio

; Four threads, two query, two writers.

[global]
rw=randread
size=256m
directory=/tmp/fio-testing/data
ioengine=libaio
iodepth=4
invalidate=1
direct=1

[bgwriter]
rw=randwrite
iodepth=32

[queryA]
iodepth=1
ioengine=mmap
direct=0
thinktime=3

[queryB]
iodepth=1
ioengine=mmap
direct=0
thinktime=5

[bgupdater]
rw=randrw
iodepth=16
thinktime=40
size=32m