Benchmark

Geekbench

Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark that measures the performance of your computer's processor and memory.

Sysbench

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sysbench
sysbench --num-threads=1 --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --validate run
# sysbench version is 0.4.12, Ubuntu 16.04

sysbench --threads=1 --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --validate run
# sysbench version 1.0.11, Ubuntu 18.04

The following one was used to benchmark Raspberry Pi 32-bit vs 64-bit.

sysbench --threads=4 --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=300000 run && 7za b

Device	Total time (1-thread)	Total time (all threads)	Average CPU Mark
Intel Core i7-8750H @ 2.20GHz Macbook Pro 2018 (6 cores)			12407
Xeon E5-1650 (12 threads)	23s	2.5s	11808
Intel i3-4590T (4-core) Dell Optiplex 3020M			5622
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (6-core)	28s	5.5s	5058
Intel Core2 Quad Q9500 @2.8GHz (4-core)			3542
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @3.0GHz (2-core)	21.5s	11.5s	2178
Intel Core i3-4010U @ 1.7GHz (4-core)	47.2s	13.4s	2437
Core(TM) i3-3110M @ 2.40GHz (4-core)	35s	10s	3049
Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz (Lenovo T420s)	10s	10s	3933
Atom(TM) z3735G @ 1.33GHz (hp stream 8 2-core)			918
Atom(TM) z2760 @ 1.8GHz (lenovo lynx 2-core)			576
Atom(TM) N270 @ 1.60GHz (EEE PC 2-core)	192s	120s	272
RPi1 (1-core)	1412s
RPi2 (4-core)	768s	191s
RPi2 (4-core)	768s	191s
RPi0-W (1-core)	624s
BeagleBlack (1-core)	673s
UDoo (2-core)	603s	302s
UDoo X86 Advanced Celeron N3160 2.24 GHZ turbo speed (2-core)	10s	10s	1472
ODroid xu4 (8-core)	372s	60s

Note that

• The /proc/cpuinfo shows only the current CPU freq. If we specify all threads when we ran the sysbench, we will be able to see the CPU MHz changed when we run watch.

watch -n1 "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep \"MHz\""

• To get the maximum freq, follow this

sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq

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Install 0.4.12 from source

• https://wiki.mikejung.biz/Sysbench#Sysbench_0.4.12_Source_Install_On_CentOS_6.5_and_CentOS_6.6 to download the source code
• Installing sysbench on Ubuntu
• https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench/blob/master/README.md#general-syntax How to build from source

sudo apt install automake autoconf libtool libmysqlclient-dev libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev make

wget http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/sysbench/sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz/3a6d54fdd3fe002328e4458206392b9d/sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz
tar zxvf sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz
cd sysbench-0.4.12/
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-mysql
sudo make # Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)
          # ...
          # ../libtool: line 5281: : command not found
sudo make install

nbench

wget http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/nbench-byte-2.2.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf nbench-byte-2.2.3.tar.gz
cd nbench-byte-2.2.3
make
./nbench

Simple C program

See Time the iterations from 0 to_2147483647

R program

Gross inefficiency in influence.lm, r-source on github

Videos

Raspberry Pi 4B vs Jetson Nano

Disk speed test

• Disk Speed Test (Read/Write): HDD, SSD Performance in Linux
• GUI method: use the 'disks' (gnome-disks) utility in Ubuntu

dd

Linux and Unix Test Disk I/O Performance With dd Command

• Test write speed

$ sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync

# External storage
$ sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/user/MyUSB/tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync

• Test read speed

$ dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024  # do not use this

# Clear the cache
$ sudo /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3
$ dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024  # consistent with 'disks' utility

hdparm

hdparm is a Linux command line utility that allows to set and view hardware parameters of hard disk drives. -t and --direct measures data transfer rate but bypassing hard drive's buffer cache memory thus reading directly from the disk.

sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/mmcblk0p1  # eg internal
sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/mmcblk0p2  # eg sd card
sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/sda1       # eg USB 
sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
sudo hdparm -t /dev/vdb                 # Measure Hard Disk Device Read Speed
sudo hdparm -T /dev/vdb                 # Measure Hard Disk Cache Read Speed
# Reading cache will give more higher performance than reading 
# from disk because only the cached data will be used and tested.

hdparm -I /dev/sda                      # show information about disk

Example: Silicon-power 512GB ssd. The box says it can read up to 560MB/s & write up to 530MB/s. Below is a test result running on NUC Pentium Silver J5005 CPU.

$ sudo hdparm -t --direct /dev/sdb1
[sudo] password for brb: 

/dev/sdb1:
 Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 1068 MB in  3.01 seconds = 355.34 MB/sec

On UDOO x86, the SSD is 341.77MB/s. The eMMC speed on UDOO x86 is 130MB/s. A portable HDD has a speed 24-29MB/s.

On phenom server, the HDD speed is 150MB/s (WD black WD4003FZEX 4TB, 2013) and 68MB/s (ST ST3640323as 640GB, 2014).

On Raspberry Pi 3B (sudo apt-get install hdparm), the microSD speed is 22MB/s only. The same SSD plugged to a USB2 port has a speed 34MB/s only.

on Dell t3600 Xeon E5-1650, the HDD (WD Blue 3TB 5400 rpm) speed is 50MB/s and the external USB (WD My Book 4T) is 25MB/s (216.50 kB/s before waking up).

Website loading

• Top 15 Free Website Speed Test Tools of 2018
• https://tools.pingdom.com/
• How to Test Website Loading Speed in Linux Terminal. It works for local IP address.

# http
$ curl -s -w 'Testing Website Response Time for :%{url_effective}\n\nLookup Time:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect Time:\t\t%{time_connect}\nPre-transfer Time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStart-transfer Time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal Time:\t\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null http://192.168.1.88/wiki/index.php/C

# https
$ curl -s -w 'Testing Website Response Time for :%{url_effective}\n\nLookup Time:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect Time:\t\t%{time_connect}\nAppCon Time:\t\t%{time_appconnect}\nRedirect Time:\t\t%{time_redirect}\nPre-transfer Time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStart-transfer Time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal Time:\t\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null https://taichimd.us/mediawiki/index.php/C

Lookup Time:		0.004311
Connect Time:		0.010050
AppCon Time:		0.049561 (https only)
Redirect Time:		0.000000 (https only)
Pre-transfer Time:	0.049659
Start-transfer Time:	5.035105

Total Time:		5.174981

• httpstat – A Curl Statistics Tool to Check Website Performance. It works for both https and local IP.

$ wget -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reorx/httpstat/master/httpstat.py
$ python httpstat.py https://taichimd.us/mediawiki/index.php/C
...
  DNS Lookup   TCP Connection   TLS Handshake   Server Processing   Content Transfer
[     4ms    |       8ms      |     34ms      |      31300ms      |       169ms      ]
             |                |               |                   |                  |
    namelookup:4ms            |               |                   |                  |
                        connect:12ms          |                   |                  |
                                    pretransfer:46ms              |                  |
                                                      starttransfer:31346ms          |
                                                                                 total:31515ms

Network speed

• 4.5MB/s wifi on raspberry pi 3B+ at home wifi-to-wifi, 7.3MB/s ethernet-to-wifi (tested using scp)
• 5.3MB/s ethernet on UDOO x86 at home wifi-to-ethernet, 62MB/s ethernet-to-ethernet (scp).