Benchmarking MySQL

[Freezerator]

Hi,

i was wondering how people benchmark there mysql performance?

Why do i ask this?
I want to see if i tweak something in my.cnf if it has the effect i want.

on google i have found this link:
http://mysqld.active-venture.com/MySQL_Benchmarks.html

Is this an proper way?

[Freezerator]

No one??

[eva2000]

hard to find 'out of the box' benchmark apps... i read a vB client had used Jmeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ to write a custom benchmarking app for vB

personally using mysqlinfo.php (mysql extended-status output) and server top stats to guage how server/mysql is performing