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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Tag: C
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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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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GlusterFS – software scalable network filesystem
GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.
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Lustre – parallel file system
Lustre is a massively, global, parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing.
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OrangeFS – open-source parallel file system
OrangeFS is an open-source, multi-server scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments.
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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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noise-repellent – suite of lv2 plugins
noise-repellent is a suite of lv2 plugins for noise reduction that uses the libspecbleach C library. It’s free and open source software.
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Cairo-Dock – desktop interface
Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.
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Docky – full fledged dock application
Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree
pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.
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Sedna – native XML database
Sedna is a free and open source native XML database which provides a full range of core database services.
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Geomview – interactive 3D viewing program
Geomview is interactive geometry software for mathematics research and education. It’s free and open source software.
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Thunar – xfce’s file manager
The main goal of the Thunar project is to create a file manager that is fast, clean, and easy to use. Free and open source software.
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UFRaw – read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras
UFRaw (The Unidentified Flying Raw) is a tool to import raw data from high-end digital cameras. It’s free and open source software.
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Entangle – tethered camera control and capture
Entangle is a program used to control digital cameras that are connected to the computer via USB. It’s free and open source software.
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DCamProf – digital camera profiling tool
DCamProf is a command line tool for making camera profiles, and performing tasks related to camera profiles and profiling.
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nUFRaw – import and edit RAW images from digital cameras
The new Unidentified Flying Raw (nUFRaw) is a free and open source utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras.
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darktable – photography workflow application and raw developer
Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. This software manages your digital negatives in a database.
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