A benchmark is the act of running computer programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware and software applications.
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HardInfo – small system administration tool
HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It’s a system profiler and benchmark.
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netperf – networking benchmark software
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.
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IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool
IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.
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Phoronix Test Suite – automated benchmarking
The Phoronix Test Suite is an open source comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform that provides an extensible framework.
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fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing
fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.
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sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark
sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.
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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software
Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.
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GNOME Disks – view, modify and configure disks and media
GNOME Disks is free and open source software to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.
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LLCbench – low level architectural characterization benchmark suite
Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite (LLCbench) is a suite of three different benchmark applications.
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KDiskMark – HDD and SSD benchmark tool
KDiskMark is an HDD and SSD benchmark tool with a very friendly graphical user interface. It’s free and open source software.
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stress-ng – stress next generation
stress-ng is designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.
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GtkStressTesting – stress and monitor hardware components
GtkStressTesting (GST) is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.
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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
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Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
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