Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

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Inside the same Git repository, we have a script to run sysbench, that is, docker-performance/bench/sysbench/run-sysbench.sh. It has some configurations, which you can modify according to your needs:

1. As the root user, create the /results directory on the host:

$ mkdir -p /results

Now, run the benchmark after setting the container environment variable to something other than Docker, which we used while building the c7perf image on the host machine, with the following commands:

$ cd docker-performance/bench/sysbench$ export container=no$ sh ./run-sysbench.sh  cpu test1

If you are running on an OS other than CentOS, you might need to install sysbench manually, and run the script a little differently. For example, here is how ...