Installing and running UnixBench will allow you to benchmark your *nix servers against each other in order to find issues in performance and latency.

# yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum -y install libX11-devel mesa-libGL-devel perl-Time-HiRes

We then fetch and install UnixBench (at the time of writing, the latest version is 5.1.3) :

# wget https://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/UnixBench5.1.3.tgz 
# tar xvfz UnixBench5.1.3.tgz
# cd UnixBench
# ./Run

The ‘Run‘ script will compile everything and launch the tests.

A sample benchmark output will look like this: The higher the final number the better the server.

========================================================================
   BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3)

   System: projects2: GNU/Linux
   OS: GNU/Linux -- 3.2.58-xenU-11-50785a6-x86_64 -- #40 SMP Tue May 6 15:39:12 UTC 2014
   Machine: x86_64 (x86_64)
   Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8")
   CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L 0 @ 1.80GHz (3600.1 bogomips)
          Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
   11:11:52 up 12 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.40, 0.46, 0.23; runlevel 3

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Run: Wed Aug 06 2014 11:11:52 - 11:39:58
1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests

Dhrystone 2 using register variables       15348279.8 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone                     1568.1 MWIPS (10.3 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput                                858.6 lps   (29.9 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks        193338.8 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           46591.9 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        559840.4 KBps  (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput                              261358.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching                  51940.6 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation                               2065.6 lps   (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                   1423.0 lpm   (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    178.0 lpm   (60.2 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead                         255469.3 lps   (10.0 s, 7 samples)

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0   15348279.8   1315.2
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       1568.1    285.1
Execl Throughput                                 43.0        858.6    199.7
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     193338.8    488.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      46591.9    281.5
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     559840.4    965.2
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     261358.3    210.1
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0      51940.6    129.9
Process Creation                                126.0       2065.6    163.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       1423.0    335.6
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        178.0    296.7
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     255469.3    170.3
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         308.9