- Linux Filesystem Benchmark using Blogbench

Blogbench is a portable filesystem benchmark that tries to reproduce the load of a real-world busy file server. It stresses the filesystem with multiple threads performing random reads, writes, and rewrites in order to get a realistic idea of the scalability and the concurrency a system can handle.

It stresses the filesystem with multiple threads performing random reads, writes and rewrites in order to get a realistic idea of the scalability and the concurrency a system can handle.

Installation:
Download blogbench from here and type the following command to compile and install blogbench

# tar xvzf blogbench-1.1.tar.gz

# cd blogbench-1.1

# ./configure

# make

# make install

Using Blogbench:
The minimal way to run the test is to just give the path to an *empty* and writable directory:

# blogbench -d /path/to/the/directory

Blogbench will start the required threads and the test will run during 5 minutes. A final "score" will then be given as an indication of read and write performance.

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2010/08/13578167756727.html