How to Test your VPS performance with UnixBench

This UnixBenchmark will test your Virtual Private Server and give you a performance score. It can take up to 10-15 minutes for this test to complete. This test required that you have gcc installed. If you do not simply run # yum install gcc before proceeding.

# wget http://www.vpstutor.com/unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz
# gunzip -dvc unixbench-4.1.0-wht.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd unixbench-4.1.0-wht-2
# make
# ./Run

Once the Benchmark as completed running you will see test results similar to these:
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Start Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 29 20:37:05 MSK 2009
20:37:05 up  1:37,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01

End Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 29 20:53:25 MSK 2009
20:53:25 up  1:53,  2 users,  load average: 11.38, 5.47, 2.91


INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7  1735954.5       46.1
Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1     1863.7      224.3
Execl Throughput                               188.3     1180.3       62.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0    69872.0      261.5
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0    22635.0      210.2
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0   268863.0      174.8
Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6    87268.1       56.5
Pipe Throughput                             111814.6   309839.1       27.7
Process Creation                               569.3     3395.9       59.7
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    44.8      197.6       44.1
System Call Overhead                        114433.5   262217.4       22.9
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FINAL SCORE                                                      77.3
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