benchmarking

benchmarking

[Tom Peters]

Does Linux (SuSE 9) have a tool that will give me a handle on read/write 
throughput to a drive without trashing anything on the drive (i.e. using 
empty space on it)?  I have an 8-drive array and sometimes writes to it 
fail over the network (Samba) and I can't prove its the array and not the 
network.

I've played with hdparm -Tt and gotten some idea. What else can I try that 
won't take a lot of setup?






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Re: benchmarking

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 at 6:28pm, Tom Peters wrote

> Does Linux (SuSE 9) have a tool that will give me a handle on read/write 
> throughput to a drive without trashing anything on the drive (i.e. using 
> empty space on it)?  I have an 8-drive array and sometimes writes to it fail 
> over the network (Samba) and I can't prove its the array and not the network.
>
> I've played with hdparm -Tt and gotten some idea. What else can I try that 
> won't take a lot of setup?

bonnie++ is very easy to compile and use, and tiobench only slightly less 
so.

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Duke University