How to install UnixBench ?
UnixBench is the original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite, updated and revised by many people over the years.
The purpose of UnixBench is to provide a basic indicator of the performance of a Unix-like system; hence, multiple tests are used to test various aspects of the system’s performance. These test results are then compared to the scores from a baseline system to produce an index value, which is generally easier to handle than the raw scores. The entire set of index values is then combined to make an overall index for the system.
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Benchmarking Your Site with ‘http_load’
http_load is a stunningly useful HTTP benchmarking utility that gives you a rough idea of how many hits per second a server is capable of serving. You simply tell it what pages to grab, and how many “clients” it should run in parallel; it gives you back useful information about the average fetches per second and the average, minimum, and maximum response times. It’s no substitute for a solid profiler to dig into the hows and whys of your application’s performance, but it’s great at telling you when you’re “good enough” to launch.
Installing http_load on OS X
- Download from http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/
- Open terminal, cd to the directory where the archive is and unzip
$ tar xvzf http_load-12mar2006.tar.gz - Move to that directory
$ cd http_load-12mar2006 - Run
$ make - Run
$ sudo make install