Sysbench is a benchmarking tool that has several modes to bench:

To install it, run this command:

> aptitude install sysbench

The common test is to use the Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) scenario with small transactions to hit an optimized database. We will pass arguments to the command to simulate application threads (the --num-threads argument).

You can run this OLTP test with two kinds of scenarios:

The available version in Debian Wheezy is 0.4. A newer version exists with more interesting results such as a reporting interval every x sec. In addition, you can...