Using Bonnie++ for filesystem performance benchmarking

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 1, 2008 3:05 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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Bonnie++ allows you to benchmark how your filesystems perform various tasks, which makes it a valuable tool when you are making changes to how your RAID is set up, how your filesystems are created, or how your network filesystems perform. Bonnie++ is available for openSUSE 10.3 as a 1-Click, for Ubuntu Hardy, and in the standard Fedora 9 repositories. I installed Bonnie++ from the 64-bit Fedora 9 repositories. The packages for Ubuntu and Fedora both install Bonnie++ into /usr/sbin, while openSUSE installs into /usr/bin. Bonnie++ will complain and fail to work if invoked as the root user, but if Bonnie++ is installed into /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin, to invoke Bonnie++ as a regular user you will probably have to include its full path.

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