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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Benchmark Tools

A benchmark is the act of running computer programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware and software applications.

HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It’s a system profiler and benchmark.

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It’s free and open source software.

IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.

The Phoronix Test Suite is an open source comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform that provides an extensible framework.

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.

GNOME Disks is free and open source software to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.

Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite (LLCbench) is a suite of three different benchmark applications.