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Blogbench a portable filesystem benchmark that tries to reproduce the load of a real-world busy file server. It stresses the filesystem with multiple threads performing random reads, writes and rewrites in order to get a realistic idea of the scalability and the concurrency a system can handle cbench a compiler benchmark utility that was implemented to measure the effect of using different compilers, compile time flags, and runtime libraries on a set of synthetic micro- benchmarks of C/C++ code. The set of small benchmarks is easily extended Contest Contest is designed to test system responsiveness by running kernel compilation under a number of different load conditions. cpuid a fairly complete CPU identification utility. It has been tested on several Intel, AMD and Cyrix CPUs Cuadro CPU Benchmark Cuadro CPU Benchmark measures the CPU performance by numerically finding a solution and measuring the runtime of the two-dimensional heat equation in Cartesian coordinates. dkftpbench an FTP benchmark program released under the terms of the GNU Public License. Its goal is to be something like SPECweb99, but for FTP rather than HTTP East-Tec DiskSanitizer (commercial) East-Tec DiskSanitizer is designed to prevent the recovery of sensitive data that you wish to be deleted from a hard disk. Neither simple file deletion, formatting the disk, nor using fdisk is enough to foil attempts to recover previously recorded data from a hard disk. FIIN Firmware Inspector tries to find compressed files in firmware images, and writes them out to files. fio fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 6 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information, such as completion and submission latencies (avg/mean/deviation), bandwidth stats, CPU, and disk utilization, and more. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. GAMMApage GAMMApage is a program to adjust a monitor's gamma setting, either fully or by color. It is capable of setting gamma for most Linux distributions upon login, including those using ATI fglrx_xgamma. It works both for graphical logins or console logins. It only requires write access to the user's home directory, not to any system directories. It includes "preparation" tips with white and black point targets to make gamma corrections effective. This is the pumped-up, Python/GTK version of Monica. GliBench a Gui based benchmarking tool to check your computer's CPU and hard disk performance hddtemp a tool that gives you the temperature of your IDE hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (that support this feature). Only moderns hard drives have a temperature sensor HPC Challenge HPC Challenge is a collection of benchmarks for measuring various aspects of system performance, such as flop/s, sustainable memory bandwidth, memory read/write rates, network bandwidth, and latency for parallel machines. It is designed for supercomputers, but will run on any computer with MPI-1 (Message Passing Interface) implementation and BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms). ianjtag tools a collection of code and a set of tools for using the JTAG interface (present in most modern microprocessors) to perform hardware tests, and for programming Flash Memory Devices connected to the processor's bus Interbench Interbench is a benchmarking application designed to emulate the CPU scheduling behavior of interactive tasks and measure their scheduling latency and jitter. It is designed to measure the effect of changes in Linux kernel design or system configuration changes such as cpu, I/O scheduler and filesystem changes and options. With careful benchmarking, different hardware can be compared. Iometer an I/O performance Analysis Tool kernbench kernbench is a CPU throughput benchmark. It is designed to compare kernels on the same machine, or to compare hardware. It runs a kernel compile at various numbers of concurrent jobs: 1/2 number of CPUs, optimal (default is 4xnumber of CPUs), and maximal job count. Optionally it can also run single threaded. It then prints out a number of useful statistics for the average of each group of runs. KGamma a KDE Control Center modul for gamma calibration/correction of XFree86. With proper gamma settings, your display (websites, images, etc.) will look the same on your monitor as on other monitors latencytest benchmark scheduling latencies of audio-apps during high system load (GFX output, /proc filesystem access, heavy DISK I/O) The program outputs HTML pages containing GIF charts of the measured scheduling latencies during each system stresstest. The goal of the benchmark is to have a tool to help optimizing the kernel for realtime multimedia apps. lmbench a suite of simple, portable benchmarks that compares different UNIX systems performance lsbench2 lsbench2 is a command line benchmark tool containing synthetic mem/CPU, pattern search, and simulation tests. LVCool cools your Athlon/Duron processor on Via KT133 or KX133 (VT8363 or VT8371/VT82C686x) chipsets during idle memtester A userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. It's portable and should compile and work on any 32- or 64-bit Unix-like system. mubench mubench is an in-depth, low-level benchmark for x86 processors. Its primary goal is to provide useful information for people who optimize assembly code and for people who write compilers. It measures latency and throughput for each individual instruction (sometimes several forms of the same instruction), as well as the throughput of arbitrary instruction mixes. The results produced by mubench are typically an order of magnitude more detailed than those found in AMD or Intel manuals. Multi Platform RAM Defragmentation A utility to 'optimize RAM performance', inspired by similar tools running on MS Windows. NAS Parallel Benchmarks The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are a small set of programs designed to help evaluate the performance of parallel supercomputers. The benchmarks, which are derived from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications, consist of five kernels and three pseudo-applications. The NPB come in several flavors. NAS solicits performance results for each from all sources. Piozone Peter's Disk Performance Benchmarking Tool Powertweak-Linux a tool that provides features for tuning of system hardware such as CPU and connected devices Prelaunch Prelaunch is a utility for the Linux desktop which significantly decreases the time needed to launch programs. Prelaunch starts the respective program during login, invisibly to the user. With this trick the real launch needs no time. During sessions there is always a new instance ready to show. It is written in C and GTK. ProcBench Procbench is a CPU benchmark that tests the math capabilities of your processor, FPU, and the cache/memory subsystem. Procmeter for monitoring the system status and other information and displaying it in a series of graphs or as text Rugg Rugg is a hard drive and filesystem harness tool that allows you to test and benchmark drives and filesystems, by writing simple to complex scenarios that can mimic the behaviour of real-world applications. Running Unix Memory Test checks the memory of a computer over a long period of time and almost-real load conditions without having to interrupt the services Screentest Screentest is a CRT screen testing utility. Ever wondered how good the quality (sharpness, linearity, convergence, etc.) of your CRT monitor is? Screentest displays the testing patterns which you can use to evaluate the quality of your monitor. sdb sdb is a simple disk benchmark tool, it is able to read or write sequential data to a disk or file. StressItOut StressItOut is a hardware stressing and testing program. Its main purpose is to strain the computer to ensure the hardware is in good state. There are several test modules: CPU load, memory test, 2D OpenGL painting, 3D OpenGL rendering, hard drives, optical drives, serial ports transmission, and parallel ports. Support for lm-sensors is in the works. swet sustained workload efficiency test (swet) is a portable benchmark for POSIX and BSD operating systems with multi-thread and multi-process capabilities and flexible, powerful report options. TurionPowerControl TurionPowerControl is a simple software to control Turion ZM/RM/QL processor parameters such VID, DID and FID. Those parameters are useful to tweak processor voltage and frequency in their different power states. Visual Disk Test Visual Disk Test (VDT) performs I/O tests on files and/or devices. The BUD Toolshed is a set of utility programs to improve operating system administration, ranging from security and storage to performance analysis. x86info a command line tool to query lowlevel CPU registers, and display configuration details xalf a small utility that provides feedback when starting X11 applications XHDBench a Qt-based X-program for testing the output speed of several devices (hard disks, CD-ROMs, floppy drives) and the interaction between them
