EvalStorage Project
Benchmarks
Limitations, Organizations, RAID, DOS,
Linux, UNIX, Windows, USgov, Documents, Vendors,
This page covers benchmark tools and supporting documentation. It is
currently limited to single-host configurations with access to local- or
remotely-attached storage devices and/or subsystems. Closely-coupled, SMP
configurations and parallel computing systems are not covered at this
time.
WARNING:
The information contained herein is made available with no warranty of any
kind. The user must be aware that it is their responsibility to review, test
and verify for correctness, suitability and impact all information and
software prior to use.
Limitations
Benchmarks
| intel.com |
Benchmark and performance tests |
Organizations
Computer
Systems
| SPEC |
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| SPC
BENCHMARK-1 (spc-1) |
Designed to accurately demonstrate the performance and
price/performance of network storage subsystems in a server class
systems environment while performing theThe I/O workload in SPC-1 is
characterized by predominately random I/O operations as typified by
predominately random access applications (e.g., OLTP, database, mail
servers) |
RAID
Vendors
| AC&NC |
RAID.edu (lists multiple benchmarks for DOS, UNIX and Windows; see
below) |
DOS
Device and
Subsystem (e.g., RAID)
| SCSITool |
Diagnostic
and benchmarking tool for SCSI storage devices |
| RAIDmark |
Measures the performance of RAID storage arrays |
| Qbench |
Quantum hard disk benchmark. Measures access times and data
rates |
| COREtest |
CORE International disk benchmark |
Linux
Disk and Storage Subsystem
| Linux Benchmark Home
Page |
Synthetic and application benchmarks for Linux as well as
information and tools to tune and run them |
| LMbench |
File system creates and deletes. Storage is not the major focus |
| UnixBench |
Local file here. |
| AIM9 |
Measures the performance of individual resources. Open-sourced by
Caldera |
| HOWTO |
Linux Benchmarking HOWTO |
| Linux Benchmarking
Project |
Linux Benchmarking Project |
| Linux Performance
Tuning |
Linux Performance Tuning |
| Powertweak
Linux |
A program to tune your kernel and hardware for optimal
performance |
| benchio |
Low-level SCSI disk read and write benchmark |
| dt |
Data integrity testing program (src, manual) |
| iotest v.3.1 |
Random disk reads and writes (src, doc, changes) |
| PostMark |
A File system benchmark by Network Appliance |
| tiotest |
Threaded disk benchmark program; multiple disk software RAID array
and SMP systems |
UNIX
Open-Source
| Bonnie++ |
Disk I/O benchmark |
| Bonnie v.2.0.6 |
Predecessor to Bonnie++ |
| IOzone II |
Issues and then performs measurements on a variety of file
operations |
| IOstone v.C/II |
Multiplatform disk, file I/O and buffer cache benchmark |
| Disktest |
in-line
disk testing supported; caution: make disk-under-test
unavailable to other users |
| IObench |
I/O throughput and fixed workload benchmark |
| IOCALL |
Focuses on measuring OS performance and system call efficiency |
| RawIO |
Low-level raw device benchmark (FreeBSD only) |
| IOGEN |
Provided by Symbios Logic, Inc. and ported to windows OS |
Windows NT/2000/XP
Freeware
| Nbench |
Measurements: CPU, L1/L2 cache, main memory, disk read/write
speeds |
| NTiogen 1.03 |
Displays the number of processes and their average response time
plus the number of I/O operations and KBytes persecond per operation.
Port of the Symbios Logic, Inc. UNIX benchmark:IOGEN |
| IOmeter |
Written by Intel; a disk I/O subsystem measurement and
characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It measures
performance under a controlled load |
| Bench32 v.1.21 |
Measures overall system performance under winNT or win95. No longer
supported (company out-of-business) |
| ThreadMark |
Originally developed by Adaptec; no longer supported. |
| HDTach v.2.61 |
Shareware/commercial disk I/O benchmark. Hard disk drive
performance test for win95/98/NT |
US Government Supported
Storage-Related
| NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing; NAS Serial Benchmark
Performance |
| HINT |
Technology Labs is a new company formed to make HINT useful to a
broader user community |
| BenchWeb |
A starting point for finding information about computer system
performance benchmarks, benchmark results, and benchmark code |
Documents
Hard Disk
Performance, Quality and Reliability
| pcguide.com |
High-level description of hard disk performance, quality and
reliability |
| Introduction |
High-level introduction that includes links to hard disk drive, bus
architecture and utilities sites |
Vendors