A guide on basic benchmarking

Last updated: February 9, 2022

Storage

• Perform timings of device/cache reads on device (sda):

  hparm -tT /dev/sda
  

• Measure the write performance of a disk

  dd if=/dev/zero of=file_1GB bs=1024 count=1000000 conv=fdatasync
  

• Benchmark with IOzone filesystem benchmarking tool and export to xls

  iozone -a /dev/sdb1 -b results.xls
  

Network

• Testing internet bandwidth

  speedtest-cli
  

• Measuring bandwidth between two computer:

  • Server-side (default port: 5001):

    iperf -s
    

  • Client-side:

    iperf -c server_ip
    

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Last update: March 9, 2022