how to test array performance in linux

[cubeless]

not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes anyways...

i have intel 6 core servers running suse linux and need a program to (non destructively) test the i/o performance of external arrays... something relatively simple like hdtach or hdtune does for windoze...

i've poked around a bit and can't seem to make sense of iometer, especially with suse...

is this really as hard to do on linux as it seems?

 

[Soulkeeper]

I can't think of one off the top of my head to suggest, but if you go to freshmeat.net you'll get several candidates worth checking out 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

I usually use bonnie++, but there are others like iobench and iozone too.

 

[alaricljs]

Yeah, bonnie or bonnie++ is the answer.

 

[cubeless]

thanks... i'll have a look at bonnie...