SUMMARY: [Q] Way to test disks performance?

From: bbb bb (mccux1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/04

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    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:54:41 +0000

    Most people suggest use "bonnie++" or "Iozone". You can find it on:

    http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
    http://www.iozone.org/

    some people suggest use :
       dd if=/dev/zero of=/XXX/filename count=2000000 bs=512
       sar -d 2 20

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "bbb bb" <mccux1@hotmail.com>
    Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:10:58 +0000
    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Subject: [Q] Way to test disks performance?

    >We would like test disks performance on our SUN Ultra SPARC servers
    >(Solaris 8). The disks include local disks and SAN disks. Normally we use
    >following commands to do it:
    >
    >mkfile 2g test
    >iostat -xtcn 10 <== to check XXMB/sec
    >
    >
    >Does there have better way ot utility can do it?
    >
    >Thanks.

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