Ubuntu 16.04 - CPU Benchmarking
So you just built your new overly-powerful system and want to stroke your ego by benchmarking your system and give the results to others. Here are a few ways to do so:
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Sysbench
This is probably the easiest method.
Installation
sudo apt-get install sysbench
Execution
Run a single threaded test with:
sysbench --test=cpu run
Run a multi-trheaded test by specifying the number of threads (16 in this case) with:
sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=16 run
Unfortunately, the default "difficulty" was too short for my 16 thread Ryzen 7 system, so I needed to increase the maximum prime with the --cpu-max-prime parameter:
sysbench --test=cpu --num-threads=16 --cpu-max-prime=100000 run
In case anybody is interested, my result for a Ryzen 1700 was:
Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 100000
Test execution summary:
total time: 19.2508s
total number of events: 10000
total time taken by event execution: 307.7587
per-request statistics:
min: 15.66ms
avg: 30.78ms
max: 55.05ms
approx. 95 percentile: 30.84ms
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 625.0000/1.70
execution time (avg/stddev): 19.2349/0.01
Phoronix Test Suite
The guys over at Phoronix published their test suite and you can use it yourself! In case you didn't know, they are an awesome Linux hardware review/benchmarking blog
Installation
sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite unzip -y
Execution
List the possible test suites with:
phoronix-test-suite list-available-suites
The CPU specific ones that I found are:
pts/chess - Chess Test Suite Processor
pts/compilation - Timed Code Compilation Processor
pts/compiler - Compiler Processor
pts/compression - Timed File Compression Processor
pts/computational-biology - Computational Biology Test Suite Processor
pts/cpu - CPU / Processor Suite Processor
pts/cryptography - Cryptography Processor
To execute one of the tests run it like so:
phoronix-test-suite run pts/cpu
References
First published: 16th August 2018