This blog post will be a place to park ideas and experiences with I/O benchmark tools and will be updated on an ongoing basis.
Please feel free to share your own experiences with these tools or others in the comments!
There are a number of tools out there to do I/O benchmark testing such as
- fio
- IOZone
- bonnie++
- FileBench
- Tiobench
- orion
My choice for best of breed is fio
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Orion:
For Oracle I/O testing , Orion from Oracle would be the normal choice but I’ve run into some install errorswhich were solved but more importantly run into runtime bugs.
IOZone
IOZone, available at http://linux.die.net/man/1/iozone, is the tool I see the most references to on the net and google searches. The biggest drawback of IOZone is the there seems to be no way to limit the test to 8K random reads. Example
Bonnie++
http://www.googlux.com/bonnie.html
Bonnie is a close to IOZone, but not quite as flexible and even less flexible than fio. Example.
FileBench
Tiobench
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiobench/
not much info
Fio – flexible I/O tester
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# job name between brackets (except when value is "global" ) [read_8k_200MB] # overwrite if true will create file if it doesn't exist # if file exists and is large enough nothing happens # here it is set to false because file should exist overwrite=0 #rw= # read Sequential reads # write Sequential writes # randwrite Random writes # randread Random reads # rw Sequential mixed reads and writes # randrw Random mixed reads and writes rw=read # ioengine= # sync Basic read(2) or write(2) io. lseek(2) is # used to position the io location. # psync Basic pread(2) or pwrite(2) io. # vsync Basic readv(2) or writev(2) IO. # libaio Linux native asynchronous io. # posixaio glibc posix asynchronous io. # solarisaio Solaris native asynchronous io. # windowsaio Windows native asynchronous io. ioengine=libaio # direct If value is true, use non-buffered io. This is usually # O_DIRECT. Note that ZFS on Solaris doesn't support direct io. direct=1 # bs The block size used for the io units. Defaults to 4k. bs=8k directory=/tmpnfs # fadvise_hint if set to true fio will use fadvise() to advise the kernel # on what IO patterns it is likely to issue. fadvise_hint=0 # nrfiles= Number of files to use for this job. Defaults to 1. nrfiles=1 filename=toto.dbf size=200m
Then run
$ fio config_file
read_8k_200MB: (g=0): rw=read, bs=8K-8K/8K-8K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=1 fio 1.50 Starting 1 process Jobs: 1 (f=1): [R] [100.0% done] [8094K/0K /s] [988 /0 iops] [eta 00m:00s] read_8k_200MB: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=27041 read : io=204800KB, bw=12397KB/s, iops=1549 , runt= 16520msec slat (usec): min=14 , max=2324 , avg=20.09, stdev=15.57 clat (usec): min=62 , max=10202 , avg=620.90, stdev=246.24 lat (usec): min=203 , max=10221 , avg=641.43, stdev=246.75 bw (KB/s) : min= 7680, max=14000, per=100.08%, avg=12407.27, stdev=1770.39 cpu : usr=0.69%, sys=2.62%, ctx=26443, majf=0, minf=26 IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued r/w/d: total=25600/0/0, short=0/0/0 lat (usec): 100=0.01%, 250=2.11%, 500=20.13%, 750=67.00%, 1000=3.29% lat (msec): 2=7.21%, 4=0.23%, 10=0.02%, 20=0.01% Run status group 0 (all jobs): READ: io=204800KB, aggrb=12397KB/s, minb=12694KB/s, maxb=12694KB/s, mint=16520msec, maxt=16520msec