Geekbench has become the go-to benchmark method among the tech people because of its availability on almost any platform out there. As the Geekbench official web site says
Geekbench provides a comprehensive set of benchmarks engineered to quickly and accurately measure processor and memory performance. Designed to make benchmarks easy to run and easy to understand, Geekbench takes the guesswork out of producing robust and reliable benchmark results.
As linux user you might want to run the benchmark on your linux dedicated server, VPS or even on your linux computer. And on this guide I’m going to explain how you can do it.
First you need to log in to the server terminal
Download the package
wget d34wv75roto0rl.cloudfront.net/Geekbench-2.4.0-Linux.tar.gz
This download link is from the geekbench web site. Geekbench 2.4.0 is the latest version of geekbench at the time or writing. You can go to http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/download/linux/ to check the latest available geekbench software and make the changes to download link accordingly.
After downloading run this command to decompress the file
tar -zxvf Geekbench-2.4.0-Linux.tar.gz
Then when it finishes, We need to move in to the decompressed directory, run this
cd dist/Geekbench-2.4.0-Linux/
Then to run the rest, execute this command
./geekbench_x86_32
When it says
If you have already purchased Geekbench, enter your email address and license
key from your email receipt with the following command line:
./geekbench_x86_32 -r <email address> <license key>
Just press “Enter” button to bypass that.
If you are running this on a X64 platform you might need to install 32bit compatibility libraries by running this command
apt-get install ia32-libs
After it finishes running, it will give you a link to view results on your web browser
Here is my geekbench result from Ramnode.com 512MB KVM VPS
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/view/1508254
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Thanks for this great tutorial.
hi, can you tell me the differences between openvz and kvm. i’m just curious with vps packages here : http://ramnode.com/ thank you..
OpenVZ is actually works as a container on the host node sharing hosts kernel. OpenVZ got less overhead since its little bit faster. But providers can oversell it very easily. KVM is true virtualization like XEN. You get control over many aspects as it operates as true dedicated server.
This blog runs on Ramnode OVZ SSD VPS 🙂