Tiobench and tiotest
Threaded I/O bench for Linux (or any *nix system with POSIX threads
support library) Author can be reached at: miku at iki.fi
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Mika Kuoppala
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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Installation:
compile by typing 'make'
after compilation './tiotest -h' should give you list of options
for backend io tester.
'./tiobench.pl --help' will give you more nicer output
and more friendly user interface
tiobench.pl is frontend to tiotest to run predefined or
configurable test suites
Credits:
James Manning <jmm at users.sf.net> wrote tiobench.pl
and also provided several fixes and improvements to
other parts of the tiobench project as a whole. He also has
relentlessly fixed typos and Mika's misspellings
everywhere.
Jakob Østergaard <jakob at ostenfeld.dk> proposed fsync
fix, and option for sequential writing to prevent
file fragmentation.
Sami Korhonen <sjkorhon at cc.hut.fi> noticed
thread_attr not initialized bug.
Numerous other contributions from fearless benchmarkers,
see ChangeLog for details.