# if you have EPEL in your yum repo: yum -y install systester-cli # else install from source: yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools' yum -y install mysql-devel wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sysbench/sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz && tar -xvzf sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz && cd sysbench-0.4.12 && libtoolize --force --copy && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 20000 Test execution summary: total time: 32.1888s total number of events: 10000 total time taken by event execution: 32.1876 per-request statistics: min: 3.21ms avg: 3.22ms max: 3.70ms approx. 95 percentile: 3.23ms Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 10000.0000/0.00 execution time (avg/stddev): 32.1876/0.00