如果大家看過一些關於MySQL的性能報告或白皮書之類的文檔,裏面會提到不少使用sysbench測試的數據結果。
sysbench可以幫助測試服務器的性能。其作用,我想大概有以下幾項:
1.幫助你測試不同硬件框架的性能
2.在你創建真實應用之前,先了解服務器的負載
3.可以協助你調試初始的服務器參數(即my.cnf/my.ini內的配置)
以下,我以linux+MySQL Cluster爲例,說明如何安裝使用sysbench
一,首先下載,我使用的版本爲sysbench-0.4.12
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sysbench/
二,安裝sysbench
1)確保如下包已經安裝(如是MySQL Server,即相應的類似包)
MySQL-Cluster-shared-gpl-7.2.12-1.sles11
MySQL-Cluster-devel-gpl-7.2.12-1.sles11
MySQL-Cluster-client-gpl-7.2.12-1.sles11
2)上傳sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz 並解壓
3)安裝如下軟件包(其中zypper對應的是suselinux的命令,如是redhat,可用yum install)
zypper in make binutils gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake
4)進行sysbench解壓根目錄,執行如下操作
cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub config/
cp /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess config/
./autogen.sh
下面的lib,include需要與你本機相匹配, whereis mysql可查
./configure --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64/mysql LDFLAGS='-ldl'
或,如果出現 undefined reference to '__gxx_personality_v0' collect2: ld command 1 exit status錯誤,則使用如下命令:
./configure --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64/mysql LDFLAGS='-ldl -lstdc++'
./configure執行完成後,需要把/usr/bin/libtool 拷貝到 sysbench解壓目錄
make & make install
以下是安裝異常及處理方法:
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checking host system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized
後來查了一下文檔,原來需要這樣解決就可以啦。
解決方案:
把 /usr/share/libtool/config.guess 覆蓋到相關軟件自帶的config.guess
把 /usr/share/libtool/config.sub 覆蓋到相關軟件自帶的config.sub
-----------
gcc: error trying to exec 'as': execvp: No such file or directory -- binutils沒有安裝出錯
can not find -lmysqlclient_r -- MySQL-Cluster-shared-gpl-7.2.12-1.sles11沒有安裝
----有下面錯誤,可以如下處理
a) 出現../libtool: line 838: X--tag=CC: command not found
b) sysbench解壓目錄,執行autogen.sh
出現aclocal命令不存之類的錯誤。可安裝autoconf和automake。可使用zypper in autoconf, zypper in automake
c) 安裝完autoconf,automake後執行 ./configure
以上,祝好運。
三,測試命令
1)運行如下命令測試
sysbench --test=oltp --mysql-table-engine=ndbcluster --oltp-table-size=2000 --num-threads=8 --oltp-test-mode=simple --mysql-db=test --mysql-user=root --mysql-password=comverse prepare
如果出現未找到libmysqlclient_r.so,把如下內容加入~/bashrc
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib
2)sysbench測試,先prepare, 再run
sysbench --test=oltp --mysql-table-engine=ndbcluster --oltp-table-size=2000 --num-threads=8 --oltp-test-mode=simple --mysql-db=db1 --mysql-user=root --mysql-password=comverse prepare
sysbench --test=oltp --mysql-table-engine=ndbcluster --oltp-table-size=2000 --num-threads=8 --oltp-test-mode=simple --mysql-db=db1 --mysql-user=root --mysql-password=comverse run
詳細的測試幫助文檔如下:
SysBench manual
Copyright 2004-2009 MySQL AB
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. About this document
Table of Contents
This document is a user manual for SysBench, a multi-threaded benchmark tool available from http://launchpad.net/sysbench. This document describes features provided by the 0.4.x development branch of SysBench. New features available in the newer 0.5.x branch are not covered by this document.
1. Translations
The following translations of this document are currentlyavailable:
- Serbo-Croatian
2. Acknowledgments
Thanks to Vera Djuraskovic<[email protected]>
forcontributing a Serbo-Croatian translation of this document.
Chapter 2. Introduction
Table of Contents
SysBench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool for evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system running a database under intensive load.
The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about system performance without setting up complex database benchmarks or even without installing a database at all.
1. Features of SysBench
Current features allow to test the following system parameters:
file I/O performance
scheduler performance
memory allocation and transfer speed
POSIX threads implementation performance
database server performance
2. Design
The design is very simple. SysBench runs a specified number of threads and they all execute requests in parallel.The actual workload produced by requests depends on the specified test mode. You can limit either the total number ofrequests or the total time for the benchmark, or both.
Available test modes are implemented by compiled-in modules, and SysBench was designed to make adding new test modesan easy task. Each test mode may have additional (or workload-specific) options.
3. Links
- Home page
- Download
- Mailing lists
- Web forums
- Bug tracking system
4. Installation
If you are building SysBench from a Bazaar repository rather than from a release tarball, you should run ./autogen.sh before building.
The following standart procedure will be sufficient to build SysBench in most cases:
./configuremakemake install |
The above procedure will try to compile SysBench with MySQL support by default. If you have MySQL headers and librariesin non-standard locations (and no mysql_config can be found in the PATH
environmental variable), then you can specify them explicitly with --with-mysql-includes
and--with-mysql-libs
options to ./configure.
To compile SysBench without MySQL support, use --without-mysql
. In this case all database-relatedtest modes will be unavailable.
If you are running on a 64-bit platform, make sure to build a 64-bit binary by passing the proper target platform and compiler options to configure script. You can also consult the INSTALL file for generic installation instructions.
Chapter 3. Usage
Table of Contents
1. General syntax
The general syntax for SysBench is as follows:
sysbench [common-options] --test=name[test-options]command |
See Section 2, “General command line options” for a description of common options and documentation for particular test mode for a listof test-specific options.
Below is a brief description of available commands and their purpose:
- prepare
- Performs preparative actions for those tests which need them, e.g. creating the necessary files on disk for the
fileio
test, or filling the test database for theoltp
test. - run
- Runs the actual test specified with the
--test=name
option. - cleanup
- Removes temporary data after the test run in those tests which create one.
- help
- Displays usage information for a test specified with the
--test=name
option.
Also you can use sysbench help to display the brief usage summary and the list of available test modes.
2. General command line options
The table below lists the supported common options, their descriptions and default values:
Option | Description | Default value |
--num-threads | The total number of worker threads to create | 1 |
--max-requests | Limit for total number of requests. 0 means unlimited | 10000 |
--max-time | Limit for total execution time in seconds. 0 (default) means unlimited | 0 |
--forced-shutdown | Amount of time to wait after --max-time before forcing shutdown. The value can be either an absolute number of seconds or as a percentage of the " | off |
--thread-stack-size | Size of stack for each thread | 32K |
--init-rng | Specifies if random numbers generator should be initialized from timer before the test start | off |
--report-interval | Periodically report intermediate statistics with a specified interval in seconds. Note that statistics produced by this option is per-interval rather than cumulative. 0 disables intermediate reports | 0 |
--test | Name of the test mode to run | Required |
--debug | Print more debug info | off |
--validate | Performvalidation of test results where possible | off |
--help | Print help on general syntax or on a test mode specified with --test, and exit | off |
--verbosity | Verbosity level (0 - only critical messages, 5 - debug) | 4 |
--percentile | SysBench measures execution times for all processed requests to display statistical information like minimal, average and maximum execution time. For most benchmarks it is also useful to know a request execution time value matching some percentile (e.g. 95% percentile means we should drop 5% of the most long requests and choose the maximal value from the remaining ones). This option allows to specify a percentile rank of query execution times to count | 95 |
--validate | Perform validation of test results where possible | off |
Note that numerical values for all size options(like --thread-stack-size
in this table) may bespecified by appending the corresponding multiplicative suffix (K forkilobytes, M for megabytes, G for gigabytes and T for terabytes).
3. Test modes
3.1. cpu
The cpu
is one of the most simple benchmarks inSysBench. In this mode each request consists in calculation of prime numbers up to a valuespecified by the --cpu-max-primes
option. All calculations are performed using 64-bit integers.
Each thread executes the requests concurrently until either the total number of requests or the total executiontime exceed the limits specified with the common command line options.
Example:
sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run |
3.2. threads
This test mode was written to benchmark scheduler performance, more specifically the caseswhen a scheduler has a large number of threads competing for some set of mutexes.
SysBench creates a specified number of threads and a specified number of mutexes. Then each threadstarts running the requests consisting of locking the mutex, yielding the CPU, so the thread isplaced in the run queue by the scheduler, then unlocking the mutex when the thread is rescheduled backto execution. For each request, the above actions are run several times in a loop, so the more iterationsis performed, the more concurrency is placed on each mutex.
The following options are available in this test mode:
Option | Description | Default value |
--thread-yields | Number of lock/yield/unlock loops to execute per each request | 1000 |
--thread-locks | Number of mutexes to create | 8 |
Example:
sysbench --num-threads=64 --test=threads --thread-yields=100 --thread-locks=2 run |
3.3. mutex
This test mode was written to emulate a situation when all threads run concurrently most of the time, acquiring the mutex lock only for a short period of time (incrementing a global variable). So the purposeof this benchmarks is to examine the performance of mutex implementation.
The following options are available in this test mode:
Option | Description | Default value |
--mutex-num | Number of mutexes. The actual mutex to lock is chosen randomly before each lock | 4096 |
--mutex-locks | Number of mutex locks to acquire per each request | 50000 |
--mutex-loops | Number of iterations for an empty loop to perform before acquiring the lock | 10000 |
3.4. memory
This test mode can be used to benchmark sequential memory reads or writes. Depending on command line options each thread can access either a global or a local block for all memory operations.
The following options are available in this test mode:
Option | Description | Default value |
--memory-block-size | Size of memory block to use | 1K |
--memory-scope | Possible values: global , local . Specifies whether each thread will use a globally allocated memory block, or a local one. | global |
--memory-total-size | Total size of data to transfer | 100G |
--memory-oper | Type of memory operations. Possible values: read , write . | 100G |
3.5. fileio
This test mode can be used to produce various kinds of file I/O workloads. At the prepare
stage SysBench creates a specified number of files with a specified total size, then at the run
stage, each thread performs specified I/O operations on this set of files.
When the global --validate
option is used with the fileio
test mode, SysBench performs checksums validation on all data read from the disk. On each write operation the block is filled with random values, then the checksum is calculated and stored in the block along with the offset of this block within a file. On each read operation the block is validated by comparing the stored offset with the real offset, and the stored checksum with the real calculated checksum.
The following I/O operations are supported:
- seqwr
- sequential write
- seqrewr
- sequential rewrite
- seqrd
- sequential read
- rndrd
- random read
- rndwr
- random write
- rndrw
- combined random read/write
Also, the following file access modes can be specified, if the underlying platform supports them:
- Asynchronous I/O mode
- At the moment only Linux AIO implementation is supported. When running in asynchronous mode,SysBench queues a specified number of I/O requests using Linux AIO API, then waits for at least one of submitted requests to complete. After that a new series of I/O requestsis submitted.
- Slow
mmap()
mode - In this mode SysBench will use
mmap
'ed I/O. However, a separatemmap
will be used for each I/O request due to the limitation of 32-bitarchitectures (we cannotmmap()
the whole file, as its size migth possiblyexceed the maximum of 2 GB of the process address space). - Fast
mmap()
mode - On 64-bit architectures it is possible to
mmap()
the whole fileinto the process address space, avoiding the limitation of 2 GB on 32-bit platforms. - Using
fdatasync()
instead offsync()
- Additional flags to
open(2)
- SysBench can use additional flags to
open(2)
, such asO_SYNC
,O_DSYNC
andO_DIRECT
.
Below is a list of test-specific option for the fileio mode:
Option | Description | Default value |
--file-num | Number of files to create | 128 |
--file-block-size | Block size to use in all I/O operations | 16K |
--file-total-size | Total size of files | 2G |
--file-test-mode | Type of workload to produce. Possible values: seqwr , seqrewr , seqrd , rndrd , rndwr , rndwr (see above) | required |
--file-io-mode | I/O mode. Possible values: sync , async , fastmmap , slowmmap (only if supported by the platform, see above). | sync |
--file-async-backlog | Number of asynchronous operations to queue per thread (only for --file-io-mode=async , see above) | 128 |
--file-extra-flags | Additional flags to use with open(2) | |
--file-fsync-freq | Do fsync() after this number of requests (0 - don't use fsync() ) | 100 |
--file-fsync-all | Do fsync() after each write operation | no |
--file-fsync-end | Do fsync() at the end of the test | yes |
--file-fsync-mode | Which method to use for synchronization. Possible values: fsync , fdatasync (see above) | fsync |
--file-merged-requests | Merge at most this number of I/O requests if possible (0 - don't merge) | 0 |
--file-rw-ratio | reads/writes ration for combined random read/write test | 1.5 |
Usage example:
$ sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=3G --file-test-mode=rndrw prepare $ sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=3G --file-test-mode=rndrw run $ sysbench --num-threads=16 --test=fileio --file-total-size=3G --file-test-mode=rndrw cleanup |
In the above example the first command creates 128 files with the total size of 3 GB in the current directory, the second command runs the actual benchmark and displays the results upon completion, and the third one removes the files used for the test.
3.6. oltp
This test mode was written to benchmark a real database performance. At the prepare stagethe following table is created in the specified database (sbtest
by default):
CREATE TABLE `sbtest` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `k` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', `c` char(120) NOT NULL default '', `pad` char(60) NOT NULL default '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `k` (`k`); |
Then this table is filled with a specified number of rows.
The following execution modes are available at the run stage:
- Simple
In this mode each thread runs simple queries of the following form:
SELECT c FROM sbtest WHERE id=N
where N takes a random value in range 1..<table size>
- Advanced transactional
Each thread performs transactions on the test table. If the test table and database support transactions(e.g. InnoDB engine in MySQL), then
Depending on the command line options, each transaction may contain the following statements:BEGIN
/COMMIT
statements will be usedto start/stop a transaction. Otherwise, SysBench will useLOCK TABLES
/UNLOCK TABLES
statements (e.g. for MyISAM engine in MySQL). If some rows are deleted in a transaction,the same rows will be inserted within the same transaction, so this test mode does not destruct any datain the test table and can be run multiple times on the same table.Point queries:
SELECT c FROM sbtest WHERE id=N
Range queries:
SELECT c FROM sbtest WHERE id BETWEEN N AND M
Range SUM() queries:
SELECT SUM(K) FROM sbtest WHERE id BETWEEN N and M
Range ORDER BY queries:
SELECT c FROM sbtest WHERE id between N and M ORDER BY c
Range DISTINCT queries:
SELECT DISTINCT c FROM sbtest WHERE id BETWEEN N and M ORDER BY c
UPDATEs on index column:
UPDATE sbtest SET k=k+1 WHERE id=N
UPDATEs on non-index column:
UPDATE sbtest SET c=N WHERE id=M
DELETE queries:
DELETE FROM sbtest WHERE id=N
INSERT queries:
INSERT INTO sbtest VALUES (...)
- Non-transactional
This mode is similar to Simple, but you can also choose the query to run. Note that unlike the Advanced transactional mode, this one does not preserve the test table between requests, soyou should recreate it with the appropriate cleanup/prepare commands betweenconsecutive benchmarks.
Below is a list of possible queries:
Point queries:
SELECT pad FROM sbtest WHERE id=N
UPDATEs on index column:
UPDATE sbtest SET k=k+1 WHERE id=N
UPDATEs on non-index column:
UPDATE sbtest SET c=N WHERE id=M
DELETE queries:
The generated row IDs are unique over each test run, so no row is deleted twice.DELETE FROM sbtest WHERE id=N
INSERT queries:
INSERT INTO sbtest (k, c, pad) VALUES(N, M, S)
Below is a list of options available for the database test mode:
Option | Description | Default value | ||||||||
--oltp-test-mode | Execution mode (see above). Possible values: simpe (simple), complex (advanced transactional) and nontrx (non-transactional) | complex | ||||||||
--oltp-read-only | Read-only mode. No UPDATE , DELETE or INSERT queries will be performed. | off | ||||||||
--oltp-skip-trx | Omit BEGIN /COMMIT statements, i.e. run the same queries as the test would normally run but without using transactions. | off | ||||||||
--oltp-reconnect-mode | Reconnect mode. Possible values:
| session | ||||||||
--oltp-range-size | Range size for range queries | 100 | ||||||||
--oltp-point-selects | Number of point select queries in a single transaction | 10 | ||||||||
--oltp-simple-ranges | Number of simple range queries in a single transaction | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-sum-ranges | Number of SUM range queries in a single transaction | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-order-ranges | Number of ORDER range queries in a single transaction | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-distinct-ranges | Number of DISTINCT range queries in a single transaction | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-index-updates | Number of index UPDATE queries in a single transaction | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-non-index-updates | Number of non-index UPDATE queries in a single transaction | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-nontrx-mode | Type of queries for non-transactional execution mode (see above). Possible values: select , update_key , update_nokey , insert , delete . | select | ||||||||
--oltp-connect-delay | Time in microseconds to sleep after each connection to database | 10000 | ||||||||
--oltp-user-delay-min | Minimum time in microseconds to sleep after each request | 0 | ||||||||
--oltp-user-delay-max | Maximum time in microseconds to sleep after each request | 0 | ||||||||
--oltp-table-name | Name of the test table | sbtest | ||||||||
--oltp-table-size | Number of rows in the test table | 10000 | ||||||||
--oltp-dist-type | Distribution of random numbers. Possible values: With special distribution a specified percent of numbers is generated in a specified percent of cases (see options below). | special | ||||||||
--oltp-dist-pct | Percentage of values to be treated as 'special' (for special distribution) | 1 | ||||||||
--oltp-dist-res | Percentage of cases when 'special' values are generated (for special distribution) | 75 | ||||||||
--db-ps-mode | If the database driver supports Prepared Statements API, SysBench will use server-side prepared statements for all queries where possible. Otherwise, client-side (or emulated) prepared statements will be used. This option allows to force using emulation even when PS API is available. Possible values: disable , auto . | auto |
Also, each database driver may provide its own options. Currently only MySQL driver is available. Below is a list of MySQL-specific options:
Option | Description | Default value |
--mysql-host | MySQL server host. Starting from version 0.4.5 you may specify a list of hosts separated by commas. In this case SysBench will distribute connections between specified MySQL hosts on a round-robin basis. Note that all connection ports and passwords must be the same on all hosts. Also, databases and tables must be prepared explicitely on each host before executing the benchmark. | localhost |
--mysql-port | MySQL server port (in case TCP/IP connection should be used) | 3306 |
--mysql-socket | Unix socket file to communicate with the MySQL server | |
--mysql-user | MySQL user | user |
--mysql-password | MySQL password | |
--mysql-db | MySQL database name. Note SysBench will not automatically create this database. You should create it manually and grant the appropriate privileges to a user which will be used to access the test table. | sbtest |
--mysql-table-engine | Type of the test table. Possible values: myisam , innodb , heap , ndbcluster , bdb , maria , falcon , pbxt | innodb |
--mysql-ssl | Use SSL connections. | no |
--myisam-max-rows | MAX_ROWS option for MyISAM tables (required for big tables) | 1000000 |
--mysql-create-options | Additional options passed to CREATE TABLE. |
Example usage:
$ sysbench --test=oltp --mysql-table-engine=myisam --oltp-table-size=1000000 --mysql-socket=/tmp/mysql.sock prepare $ sysbench --num-threads=16 --max-requests=100000 --test=oltp --oltp-table-size=1000000 --mysql-socket=/tmp/mysql.sock --oltp-read-only=on run |
The first command will create a MyISAM table 'sbtest' in a database 'sbtest' on a MySQL server using /tmp/mysql.sock
socket, then fill this table with 1M records. The second command will run the actual benchmark with 16 client threads, limiting the total number of request by 100,000.