Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hard Drive Stress Test Application

["Wil Reichert" <wil.reichert@gmail.com>]

On 4/25/07, Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please share some links to applications that can do some stress test for
> > hard disk. Please note that the application should be command line as
> > there is no GUI like KDE or Gnome.
>
> I don't know about stress testing software but I had a handy little
> tarball I decompress to stress test storage hardware. 4GB worth of
> 1kB--4kB gif images spread across 40 folders. Decompress that to an
> ext3 partition, serve it over a network to a windows machine using
> samba, and tell windows to view the remote folder in thumbnail view.
> Already proven one hardware RAID card wasn't up to the task. :D

app-benchmarks/stress

and

app-benchmarks/bonnie++

have worked well for me.

Wil
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