btest

Block level test/exerciser utility for Linux to produce synthetic random/sequential IO patterns

Features

Supports multiple files/block devices
Supports sync, direct, aio, and sg
Supports SSDs (Trim)
Generates Dedup and compression aware patterns
Data verification
Hiccups discovery, latency histograms
Supports subtotal and differential reports, CSV reports

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bob-nilsen Posted 2013-09-11

I'm really impressed with btest. I've been doing a lot of disk testing with iozone, and iometer lately... and they all have their problems. btest, on the other hand, seems very full-featured, thoughtfully designed, and well documented. I especially appreciate how it allows you to control the dedup and compression ratios, for testing modern storage devices. This is probably my new favorite tool for doing I/O benchmarking on Linux hosts.

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Intended Audience

Developers, Quality Engineers, System Administrators

User Interface

Command-line

Programming Language

Related Categories

C Storage Software, C Benchmark Software

Registered

2008-09-03

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