Updated project description in README.md and packaging files.

README.md

@@ -5,29 +5,33 @@
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-# About
+# sysbench
 
-sysbench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool
-for evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system running a
-database under intensive load.
+sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on
+LuaJIT. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, but can also
+be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a
+database server.
 
-The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about
-system performance without setting up complex database benchmarks or
-even without installing a database at all.
+sysbench comes with the following bundled benchmarks:
 
-## Features
-
-Current features allow to test the following system parameters:
-
--   file I/O performance
+- `oltp_*.lua`: a collection of OLTP-like database benchmarks
+- `fileio`: a filesystem-level benchmark
+- `cpu`: a simple CPU benchmark
+- `memory`: a memory access benchmark
+- `threads`: a thread-based scheduler benchmark
+- `mutex`: a POSIX mutex benchmark
 
--   scheduler performance
-
--   memory allocation and transfer speed
-
--   POSIX threads implementation performance
+## Features
 
--   database server performance
+- extensive statistics about rate and latency is available, including
+  latency percentiles and histograms;
+- low overhead even with thousands of concurrent threads. sysbench is
+  capable of generating and tracking hundreds of millions of events per
+  second;
+- new benchmarks can be easily created by implementing pre-defined hooks
+  in user-provided Lua scripts;
+- can be used as a general-purpose Lua interpreter as well, simply
+  replace `#!/usr/bin/lua` with `#!/usr/bin/sysbench` in your script.
 
 # Installing from Binary Packages
 

debian/control

@@ -9,19 +9,17 @@ Homepage: https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench
 Package: sysbench
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool
- sysbench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool for
- evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system running a database
- under intensive load.
+Description: Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
+ sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on
+ LuaJIT. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, but can also
+ be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a
+ database server.
  .
- The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about system
- performance without setting up complex database benchmarks or even without
- installing a database at all.
+ sysbench comes with the following bundled benchmarks:
  .
- Current features allow to test the following system parameters:
- .
-  * file I/O performance
-  * scheduler performance
-  * memory allocation and transfer speed
-  * POSIX threads implementation performance
-  * database server performance (OLTP benchmark)
+ - oltp_*.lua: a collection of OLTP-like database benchmarks
+ - fileio: a filesystem-level benchmark
+ - cpu: a simple CPU benchmark
+ - memory: a memory access benchmark
+ - threads: a thread-based scheduler benchmark
+ - mutex: a POSIX mutex benchmark

rpm/sysbench.spec

@@ -27,24 +27,19 @@ ExclusiveArch: %{arm} %{ix86} x86_64 %{mips} aarch64
 
 
 %description
-sysbench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark
-tool for evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system
-running a database under intensive load.
-
-The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about
-system performance without setting up complex database benchmarks or
-even without installing a database at all. Current features allow to
-test the following system parameters:
-- file I/O performance
-- scheduler performance
-- memory allocation and transfer speed
-- POSIX threads implementation performance
-- database server performance (OLTP benchmark)
-
-Primarily written for MySQL server benchmarking, sysbench will be
-further extended to support multiple database backends, distributed
-benchmarks and third-party plug-in modules.
-
+sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on
+LuaJIT. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, but can also
+be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a
+database server.
+
+sysbench comes with the following bundled benchmarks:
+
+- oltp_*.lua: a collection of OLTP-like database benchmarks
+- fileio: a filesystem-level benchmark
+- cpu: a simple CPU benchmark
+- memory: a memory access benchmark
+- threads: a thread-based scheduler benchmark
+- mutex: a POSIX mutex benchmark
 
 %prep
 %setup -q

snap/snapcraft.yaml.in

@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 name: sysbench
 version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
-summary: Cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool
+summary: Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
 description: |
- sysbench is a modular, cross-platform and multi-threaded benchmark tool for
- evaluating OS parameters that are important for a system running a database
- under intensive load.
+ sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on
+ LuaJIT. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, but can also
+ be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a
+ database server.
+
+ sysbench comes with the following bundled benchmarks:
 
- The idea of this benchmark suite is to quickly get an impression about system
- performance without setting up complex database benchmarks or even without
- installing a database at all.
+ - oltp_*.lua: a collection of OLTP-like database benchmarks
+ - fileio: a filesystem-level benchmark
+ - cpu: a simple CPU benchmark
+ - memory: a memory access benchmark
+ - threads: a thread-based scheduler benchmark
+ - mutex: a POSIX mutex benchmark
 
- Current features allow to test the following system parameters:
-  * file I/O performance
-  * scheduler performance
-  * memory allocation and transfer speed
-  * POSIX threads implementation performance
-  * database server performance (OLTP benchmark)
 grade: stable
 confinement: classic