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pufferfish
Asked: 2011-02-11 05:11:23 +0800 CST

Linux tool/command to check file system performance

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What is the simplest way to check read/write performance to a specific location (e.g. a mounted iSCSI device).

I suspect I can't use hdparm because that's lower level. Am I right?

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  1. Best Answer

    bonnie++ is an aging but good one, as well as iozone.

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  2. Found this link: Quick SAN Performance Test, NFS, iSCSI, IOZONE – Part I

    time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disk_write_test.tmp bs=64k count=125000 && sync"

    Note from the article:

    • Use more than the machine's free memory to make sure caching isn't being taken into account

    Or, to force the caching off

    time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/home/disk_write_test.tmp bs=64k count=125000 oflag=direct"
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  3. I use sysbench:

    sysbench --test=fileio prepare

    sysbench --test=fileio --file-test-mode=rndrw run

    sysbench --test=fileio --file-test-mode=seqrewr run

    There are a lot of configuration options but that will give you a good idea.

    Cheers

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  4. there are many tools available for the performance test. Like if you want to test sequencial read,random read/write etc. iozone is too much elaborate in its output. couple of others are also discussed here. file system performance test

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  5. iozone, bonnie and bonnie++ are common benchmark tools.

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  6. Check out bonnie++.

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  7. 'dd' is really a good way to do it. To get an accurate test though you probably want to make sure that device is not mounted, and you actually 'dd' straight to the block device itself, or one of its partitions. If it is a multipath'd device, you should use the dm-device instead, i.e.: /dev/dm-* or /dev/mapper/*, or if you have a custom configuration, whatever the pathing is to your MP devices.

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