Are there any benchmarking programs?

Question

Is there a way to benchmark the performance of my Raspberry Pi?

I'd be looking at Upload/Download speeds, reads, writes, and general processing stuff.

Answer 1

Iperf is an excellent program for measuring maximum bandwidth between networks.

#Sever listening on TCP port 1337
ip route
iperf -s -p 1337
#Sever listening on UDP port 1337
iperf -s -u -p 1337
#Client connecting to server IP(TCP)
iperf -c <IP_ADDR> -p 1337 -t <TIME> -i <PING_TIME> -f m -d
#Client connecting to server IP(UDP)
iperf -c <IP_ADDR> -u -p 1337 -t <TIME> -i <PING_TIME> -f m -d

From the elinux wiki

USB Bus(write to an external storage device)

dd if=/mnt/drivehere/test of=/dev/null bs=32M count=10 iflag=direct

SD card read and write

# write
dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.tmp bs=500K count=1024 
# read
dd if=~/test.tmp of=/dev/null bs=500K count=1024 

CPU linpack

wget http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/linpackc.new
mv linpackc.new linpack.c
cc -O3 -o linpack linpack.c -lm

GPU benchmarking is quite hard since OpenCl isn't supported. A rough benchmark would be ioquake3 and glxgears for comparing the frame rate.You could also use OpenGl:ES as ppumkin noted.

Munin can also help measure performance by relating it to the previous configurations you had. How to setup munin