Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm specifically interested in
benchmarks that approximate or target real in the wild usage
scenarios.  My main areas of focus are latency, network
performance (incoming data over sockets). Application areas are
messaging and databases (in memory). Not concerned with math, or
audio/video/desktop, this is all pure server application.
share|improve this question Can you elaborate? What in general
you want to test? Linux does a awful lot of different things. – 
Zoredache Sep 21 '10 at 22:57  1 Answer 1  up vote 3 down vote
accepted  In my travels, I've used the following...  iperf
(network), bonnie++ (disk), iozone (disk), unixbench (baseline
comparisons), stress (load generation)... to start.
share|improve this answer you may be interested also in ab
(apache benchmark) and jmeter to generate stress in web
applications and load balancers. –  coredump Sep 22 '10 at 2:45
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