mysqlslap is a diagnostic program designed to emulate client load for a MySQL server and to report the timing of each stage. It works as if multiple clients are accessing the server.
If you aren't yet using Puppet or Chef for managing your *nix infrastructure, you should seriously consider it. The benefits are enormous. Frankly, I don't think you __can__ manage a modern infrastructure without using Puppet, Chef, or reinventing a configuration management framework with your own custom scripts. However, you can't use both Chef and Puppet together, so which should you choose?
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Here is a table with some of the dsyslog features matched up against syslog, rsyslog, metalog, and syslog-ng.
