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All this programs are provided under the GPL, excepted SpecSFS. This toolsare mainly issued from two projects :
L.S.E : Linux Scalability Effort
L.T.P : Linux Tests Projects
Non Reg capability | Performance evaluation | Robustness evaluation | NFSv3/v4 support | IPv4/IPv6 | POSIX conformance | Interoperability evaluation | RFC 3530 conformance | |
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NetBench |
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DBench |
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IOZone |
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Stress |
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Mongo |
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PyNFS |
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connectathon |
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OpenPOSIX |
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PostMark |
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Nota :
All tests are interoperability evaluation capable, by testing allNFSv4 clients/servers combinations.
To support NFSv4 and IPv6 the SpecSFS tool must be updated. Accordingto a first sizing, 11 month may be necessary.
Bonnie++
A classical performances evaluation tool tests. The mainprogram tests database type access to a single file (or a set of filesif you wish to test more than 1G of storage), and it tests creation, reading,and deleting of small files which can simulate the usage of programs suchas Squid, INN, or Maildir format email.
DBench
Dbench was written to allow independents developers to debug and test SAMBA.It is heavily inspired of the original SAMBA tool : NetBench.(LSE)
As NetBench it allow to:
- torture the file system
- improve the network load independently of the disk IO
- Measure performances
But it does not need as many hardware resources as NetBench to run.
IOZone
Performances tests suites. POSIX and 64 bits compliant. This tests is thefile system test from the L.S.E.
Main features:
- POSIX async I/O, Mmap() file I/O, Normal file I/O
- Single stream measurement, Multiple stream measurement, Distributedfile server measurements (Cluster)
- POSIX pthreads, Multi-process measurement
- Selectable measurements with fsync, O_SYNC
- Latency plots
Stress
This tool allow to set up a user specified amount of CPU, Disks IO, RAMand HDD load, and then to launch the test suite. Any error is detectedand reported. It may be used to evaluate how well their systems will scale,by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics,and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only ormore frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy load.
Fstress
A very flexible tool designed to evaluate NFS performances. fstress exportscontrol over several dimensions in both data set and workload, enablinga wide range of tests for fundamental evaluation of file service scalability,sizing, configuration, and other factors.
Fstress includes several important "canned" workloads.
SpecSFS
This tool is an industry standard designed to test a NFS server by emulatingthe NFS client and verifying the correctness of the result. Since the lowlevel protocol is verified, the tool is protocol dependent and must beadapted to the NFSv4 and IPv6 support.
Dbench, fstress and SpecSFS are directly designed and used to test networksfile systems.
OpenPOSIX
OpenPOSIX is a tool designed to test the POSIX conformance. Currently,the test allow to test pthread, timers and ipc related functions. However,a few filesystems functions can be tested (open, close).
NFSv4 IETF project/connectathon
This test suite is the official suite of the connectathon to test clients/serversinteroperability.
PyNFS
PyNFS is the tool used to debug the Linux NFSv4 server. It maybe adaptedto verify the RFC compliance.
Mongo
Mongo is the filesystem suite from the Reiser4 filesystem project. It isa set of the programs to test linux filesystems for performance and functionality.The main program is mongo.pl script which creates the set of statisticsfor the file system variations specified by special mongo options. Themongo_parser.pl script parses those statistics and creates for them comparativehtml-table.
PostMark
PostMark was designed to create a large pool of continually changing filesand to measure the transaction rates for a workload approximating a largeInternet electronic mail server. It generates an initial pool of randomtext files ranging in size from a configurable low bound to a configurablehigh bound. This file pool is of configurable size and can be located onany accessible file system.
Once the pool has been created (also producing statistics on continuoussmall file creation performance), a specified number of transactions occurs.Each transaction consists of a pair of smaller transactions:
- Create file or Delete file
- Read file or Append file
Flexible File System Benchmark"
The Flexible Filesystem Benchmark (FFSB) is a cross-platform filesystem performance measurement tool. It uses customizable profiles to measure of different workloads, and it supports multiple groups of threads across multiple filesystems.Depending on the profile It can be used for robustness and stress testing as well as performances testing.