UnixBench is a popular server benchmarking tool. To install and run UnixBench, just do the following (for CentOS):# yum install gcc gcc-c++ make libXext-devel# wget -c http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz# tar xvzf unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz# cd unixbench-5.1.2# make# ./RunUnixBench should begin running tests and output a final score. For Debian/Ubuntu:# apt-get install libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev perl perl-modules make# wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz# tar xvf unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz# cd unixbench-5.1.2# ./Run