From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hh4Qp-0005Pb-Dx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:54:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3QDr9OX026177; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:53:09 GMT Received: from relay.sgi.com (netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com [192.48.171.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3QDr8xx026170 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:53:09 GMT Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by netops-testserver-4.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3417A61B2D for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [150.166.8.69]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l3QDr68Z015710 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:53:07 -0700 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l3QDr6Q8083811 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l3QDr6bL083894 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:53:06 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hard Drive Stress Test Application Message-ID: <20070426135306.GA83846@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <463017AD.7050401@singnet.com.sg> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463017AD.7050401@singnet.com.sg> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 88f1c48c-038d-4110-927a-e76894840523 X-Archives-Hash: e92527385d813480a189d096212db923 P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: > > Now I need to test to see if it works under stress conditions for my > hard disks. > Give xdd a try - http://www.ioperformance.com/ It's scriptable, works on single drives as well as huge NAS setups. And it's an accepted benchmarking tool. Bob - -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list