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-SysBench:  System evaluation benchmark
-
-The idea is to quickly get an impression about system performance for MySQL
-usage without setting up complex benchmark and even without installing MySQL.
-In some cases this is very helpful. This is also the reason for having
-everything in simple file not depending on any external libraries.
-
-Description:
-This benchmark was designed for identifying basic system parameters, as they
-are important for system using MySQL (w Innodb) under intensive load.
-Handling of IO in case of many parallel requests, checked as well as 
-memory allocation/transfer speed and scheduler performance. 
-CPU is benchmarked by using 64bit integer manipulation using Euklid 
-algorithms for prime number computation. 
-Benchmarks are designed to show benefit of multiple CPUs as well as of
-multiple hard drives, battery backed up write cache.
-
-Sequential read/writes test is a bit tricky, it means request are just given
-out sequentially, but there is no guaranty they will be actually executed this
-way, it could result in some sort of random IO in case of bad IO or threads
-scheduler
-
-Installing:
-See the file INSTALL for generic installation instructions.
-In most cases you will need the following steps:
-    ./autogen.sh (unnecessary if you are building from a release tarball)
-    ./configure (or ./configure --without-mysql to compile w/o MySQL support)
-    make
-    make install
-
-Running:
-The general syntax is
-    sysbench [<general-options>] [<test-options>] <command>
-To see available options, tests and commands type:
-    sysbench help
-or
-    sysbench --test=<name> help
-to see options supported by a specified test. Default values for the options
-are specified in brackets after description.
-Currently supported commands are help, run and create-db (for the MySQL test).
-The latter will create a table and fill it with values required to run the 
-MySQL test, using database, table name and size passed as MySQL test options. 
-
-Notes:
-* Make sure number of threads is at least 2 times of numbers CPUs you have.
-* For the fileio test make sure you're using file size which is at least 5 
-times larger than your memory for reliable results. Make sure to use enough 
-files to keep size of each less than 2/4G. 
-* For the threads test --thread-locks should be at least 2 times less than 
-number of threads.
-* If you're running on 64bit CPU make sure to compile 64bit binary for good
-results. 
-
-
-Basic design:
-This test is designed to be easily extensible to add your own test operations,
-as well as create operation mixes to benchmark some particular load.
-The architecture is very simple. Several threads are started and they all
-run in the loop asking for requests from get_request() function,  until
-NULL operation is received. For each request execute_request() is executed,
-which runs it as designed. This allows to design test highly scalable as well
-as producing large amount of conflicts if needed for test case.
-
-Bug reporting:
-Please report any bugs you encounter to <sysbench-developers@lists.launchpad.net>. 

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+SysBench
+============
+
+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.
+
+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
+