Sysbench
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sysbench is a script-based benchmark tool that measures CPU, memory, file I/O, threads, mutexes, and MySQL/PostgreSQL database load. You run it by specifying a test type and a prepare/run/cleanup stage, as in sysbench cpu run, and it outputs throughput and latency statistics as results. Because you can create custom workloads with Lua scripts, it is widely used for comparing server specs and for measuring before and after database tuning.