How to benchmark CPU, memory, disk and network performance of server using Speedtest and SysBench

Ideally, run benchmark tests on development servers to avoid installing and running Speedtest and SysBench on production servers.

Requirements

Virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated server running Debian 10 (buster)

Installation guide

Step 1: check if Backports repository is enabled

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep "buster-backports"

Step 2: enable Backports repository (only run command if previous step returned nothing)

cat << "EOF" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main
EOF
apt update

Step 3: check if GnuPG is installed

$ gpg --version
-bash: gpg: command not found

Step 4: install GnuPG (only run command if previous step returned `-bash: gpg: command not found`)

apt install -y gnupg2

Step 5: import Speedtest’s PGP public key and enable Speedtest’s repository

$ apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.hyKJZh5s4e/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61
gpg: key 379CE192D401AB61: public key "Bintray (by JFrog) <bintray@bintray.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

$ echo "deb https://ookla.bintray.com/debian buster main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/speedtest.list
deb https://ookla.bintray.com/debian buster main

$ apt update

Step 6: install Speedtest and SysBench

apt install -y speedtest sysbench

Usage guide

Benchmark network

Depending on iptables configuration, running the following commands may be required.

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8080 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8080 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

$ speedtest

   Speedtest by Ookla

     Server: Vodafone - Reykjavík (id = 4141)
        ISP: 1984 ehf
    Latency:     0.64 ms   (0.06 ms jitter)
   Download:    95.82 Mbps (data used: 158.0 MB)
     Upload:    95.63 Mbps (data used: 155.7 MB)
Packet Loss:     0.0%
 Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/19654353-3d2e-4ed3-ac22-824e1376b838

Network download speed: 95.82 Mbps

Network upload speed: 95.63 Mbps

Benchmark CPU

$ sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
sysbench 1.0.18 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time


Prime numbers limit: 20000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
    events per second:   403.87

General statistics:
    total time:                          10.0012s
    total number of events:              4040

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    2.43
         avg:                                    2.47
         max:                                    4.60
         95th percentile:                        2.52
         sum:                                 9995.53

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           4040.0000/0.00
    execution time (avg/stddev):   9.9955/0.00

CPU events per second: 403.87

Benchmark memory

$ sysbench memory run
sysbench 1.0.18 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time


Running memory speed test with the following options:
  block size: 1KiB
  total size: 102400MiB
  operation: write
  scope: global

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

Total operations: 40219144 (4020984.62 per second)

39276.51 MiB transferred (3926.74 MiB/sec)


General statistics:
    total time:                          10.0003s
    total number of events:              40219144

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.00
         avg:                                    0.00
         max:                                    1.84
         95th percentile:                        0.00
         sum:                                 4358.06

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           40219144.0000/0.00
    execution time (avg/stddev):   4.3581/0.00

Memory speed: 3926.74 MiB/sec

Benchmark disk

$ sysbench fileio --file-total-size=8G prepare
sysbench 1.0.18 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

128 files, 65536Kb each, 8192Mb total
Creating files for the test...
Extra file open flags: (none)
Creating file test_file.0
Creating file test_file.1
Creating file test_file.2
Creating file test_file.3
Creating file test_file.4
Creating file test_file.5
...
Creating file test_file.127
8589934592 bytes written in 85.92 seconds (95.34 MiB/sec).

$ sysbench fileio --file-total-size=8G --file-test-mode=rndrw --max-time=300 --max-requests=0 run
sysbench 1.0.18 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time


Extra file open flags: (none)
128 files, 64MiB each
8GiB total file size
Block size 16KiB
Number of IO requests: 0
Read/Write ratio for combined random IO test: 1.50
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing random r/w test
Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!


File operations:
    reads/s:                      2727.09
    writes/s:                     1818.06
    fsyncs/s:                     5818.16

Throughput:
    read, MiB/s:                  42.61
    written, MiB/s:               28.41

General statistics:
    total time:                          300.0100s
    total number of events:              3109023

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.00
         avg:                                    0.10
         max:                                   11.59
         95th percentile:                        0.23
         sum:                               298089.49

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           3109023.0000/0.00
    execution time (avg/stddev):   298.0895/0.00

$ sysbench fileio --file-total-size=8G cleanup
sysbench 1.0.18 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Removing test files..

Disk read throughput: 42.61 MiB/s

Disk write throughput: 28.41 MiB/s

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