Sysbench & QA-Board

This project is a QA-Board wrapper around sysbench's benchmarks:

Requirements

• Install sysbench:

sudo apt install sysbench
# with non-debian systems: https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench

• Use python3.7 and install qaboard

pip install --upgrade qaboard

• Get the code:

git clone git@github.com:arthur-flam/sysbench-qaboard.git
cd sysbench-qaboard

Usage

Edit qa/batches.yaml to configure the benchmark. For instance, for a fileio benchmark:

benchark-fileio:
  inputs:
  - /some/disk
  # https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench#general-syntax
  configs:
    # the test will prepare/run/clean
  - testname: fileio
    prepare: true  # default is false!
    clean: true    # default is false!
    # options will be forwared: sysbench [testname] run --flag/--param-name value
    file-test-mode: rndrw
    histogram: true

Then start with:

qa batch benchark-fileio

To start a cpu benchmark:

benchark-cpu:
  inputs:
  - /proc/cpuinfo
  configs:
  - testname: cpu
    histogram: true
    # threads: 4
    # cpu-max-prime: 20000
    # time: 60

References:

• Sysbench man
• Sysbench usage
• Evaluating cloud server performance
• It can get tricky fast

TODO

• Check/add relevant metrics/graphs for each test suit
  • fileio
  • cpu
  • memory
  • oltp_*.lua
  • threads
  • mutex