IBM REDP-4285-00 User Manual

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Linux Performance and Tuning Guidelines

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When you perform benchmarking, it’s wise to use the sample test scripts which come with 
netperf

. By changing some variables in the scripts, you can perform your benchmarking as 

you like. The scripts are in the doc/examples/ directory of the netperf package. 

For more details, refer to 

Following are some other useful benchmark tools. Keep in mind that you have to know the 
characteristics of the benchmark tool and choose the tools that fit your needs. 

bonnie

Disk I/O and file system benchmark

bonnie++

Disk I/O and file system benchmark.

NetBench

File server benchmark. It runs on Windows.

dbench

File system benchmark. Commonly used for file server benchmark.

iometer

Disk I/O and network benchmark

ttcp

Simple network benchmark

nttcp

Simple network benchmark

iperf

Network benchmark

ab (Apache Bench)

Simple web server benchmark. It comes with Apache HTTP server.

WebStone

Web server benchmark

Apache JMeter

Used mainly web server performance benchmarking. It also support 
other protocol such as SMTP, LDAP, JDBC™ etc. and it has good 
reporting capability.

fsstone, smtpstone

Mail server benchmark. They come with Postfix.

nhfsstone

Network File System benchmark. Comes with nfs-utils package.

DirectoryMark

LDAP benchmark