Are there any benchmarking and performance testing tools available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Issue

• Are there any benchmarking and performance testing tools available in RHEL?

Resolution

• Currently there are no tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the sole purpose of benchmarking or performance testing. However, some parts of RHEL could be used for benchmarking with the correct syntax:

  • openssl speed - OpenSSL Algorithm Speed Measurement (CPU and memory test)
  • dd - Copy a file (I/O test) (howto-nfs, howto-network)
  • md5sum - Compute and check MD5 message digest (CPU and memory test)
  • ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (webserver test) (howto)
  • qperf - Measure network socket and RDMA performance (network test) (howto)
  • fio - Flexible I/O Tester, I/O benchmark and stress/hardware verification tool (howto). The fio package is available in RHEL 7 & later.

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• Performance measurement tools available in the Content from fedoraproject.org is not included.Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository, as well as other third-party repositories such as Content from github.com is not included.Github 🔗 , Content from repoforge.org is not included.RepoForge 🔗 and Content from rpmfusion.org is not included.RPM Fusion 🔗 among others.

  • Refer to How to use Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)? for EPEL installation instructions.

• The following is a list of tools available in the various repositories and on the internet, links are provided where the open source project has a clear and maintained location:

  • Memory
    • Content from zsmith.co is not included.bandwidth - a memory bandwidth benchmark
  • CPU
    • Content from github.com is not included.DKbench - Perl-based CPU Benchmark tool
  • Networking & Web Servers
    • Content from github.com is not included.dnsperf - Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS servers
    • Content from sourceforge.net is not included.httperf - Web server benchmark
    • Content from sourceforge.net is not included.iperf2 - Tool for measuring TCP and UDP bandwidth performance
    • Content from github.com is not included.iperf3 - Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance
    • Content from github.com is not included.netperf - Performance testing tool for TCP/UDP
    • Content from wiki.linux-nfs.org is not included.nfsometer - NFS Performance Framework Tool
    • Content from www.nuttcp.net is not included.nuttcp - determine raw TCP (or UDP) network layer throughput
    • Content from www.joedog.org is not included.siege - HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility
    • Content from code.google.com is not included.sockperf - latency and throughput of networking socket API
    • Content from bitspjoule.org is not included.netpipe - Protocol independent performance tool
    • Content from github.com is not included.wbox - Command line tool to test HTTP performance of Web servers and Web applications
    • Content from en.wikipedia.org is not included.ttcp - tool for measuring network though put of TCP/UDP at receiver
  • Disk I/O & Filesystems
    • Content from fsbench.filesystems.org is not included.aio-stress - AIO benchmark tool
    • Content from www.coker.com.au is not included.bonnie++ - Filesystem and disk benchmark & burn-in suite
    • Content from samba.org is not included.dbench - Filesystem load benchmarking tool
    • ioblazer - VMware's Multi-platform storage stack micro-benchmark
    • Content from www.iozone.org is not included.iozone - filesystem benchmark tool
    • Content from github.com is not included.filebench - A model based file system workload generator
    • Content from git.kernel.dk is not included.fio - I/O benchmark and stress/hardware verification tool (for RHEL 6 and earlier)
    • Content from sourceforge.net is not included.fs_mark - Benchmark synchronous/async file creation
    • Content from gist.github.com is not included.seeker - Tool to measure disk performance (random seek access time)
    • Content from github.com is not included.spew - I/O performance measurement and load generation tool
    • Content from tiobench.sourceforge.net is not included.tiobench - Threaded IO benchmarking utility
  • Other
    • Content from github.com is not included.interbench - Interactivity benchmark tool
    • Content from gitlab.com is not included.kcbench - Kernel compile benchmark
    • Content from lmbench.sourceforge.net is not included.lmbench - Suite of simple, portable benchmarks
    • Content from phoronix-test-suite.com is not included.phoronix-test-suite - An Automated, Open-Source Testing Framework
    • Content from github.com is not included.stress, Content from github.com is not included.s-tui - A tool to put given subsystems under a specified load and a UI viewer
    • Content from github.com is not included.sysbench - System performance benchmark
    • Content from github.com is not included.unixbench - Byte's UNIX Benchmarks

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