[CentOS] Benchmark Disk IO

Wed May 5 17:13:56 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 5/5/2010 12:00 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> Try to run the same IO operations as your production server is running.
>> Bonnie++ could be good application for benchmarking. Also run some
>> parallel rsync, rm, find, etc proccesses.
>>
>
> I am with John Pierce on this one, role and app will dictate benchmarks
> that reflect reality.
>
> Having said that, I think iozone>  bonnie++

If the job involves creating/deleting lots of little files like a mail 
server with maildir format storage, you might try to dig up a copy of 
postmark too.

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   Les Mikesell
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