About:
Bonnie++ is based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray. The most notable features that have been added are support for >2G of storage and testing operations involving thousands of files in a directory. This program is used by ReiserFS developers, but can be useful for anyone who wants to know how fast their hard drive or file system is. It now includes ZCAV in the package. This program tests the performance of different zones on the hard drive. ZCAV has been released separately before but will now only be released as part of the Bonnie++ suite.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
ZCAV now works better with larger and faster disks. The default block size is 256MiB and output is displayed in MiB/s and GiB. It also displays the progress on multiple loops. Units were changed to KiB, MiB, and GiB in all programs and documentation.

Author:
Russell Coker <russell [at] coker [dot] com [dot] au> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/experimental/bonnie++-1.94.tgz

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		System :: Benchmark, System :: Filesystems

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.94	19-Aug-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Stable	1.03c	27-Jan-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.94	Major feature enhancements	19-Aug-2008 15:14
1.03d	Minor feature enhancements	23-Jul-2008 06:54
1.93d	Minor feature enhancements	03-Dec-2007 03:40
1.93c	Minor bugfixes	09-Jan-2003 01:32
1.93b	Major bugfixes	01-Jan-2003 19:04
1.93	Major feature enhancements	09-Dec-2001 16:41
1.0.2	Minor bugfixes	17-Oct-2001 01:40
1.01d	Minor bugfixes	15-Aug-2001 06:14
1.01	Major bugfixes	13-Mar-2001 16:09
1.00a	N/A	18-Jul-2000 17:35

 Comments

[»] OS X
by Max Waterman - Apr 10th 2003 18:55:17

I used to use this when I was benchmarking some linux drives and thought it was great.

Now I would like to use it to benchmark the drives on my Mac.

Is there a port of Bonnie++ for Mac? If not, any plans for one?

Max.

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[»] Re: OS X
by Fabrice Bacchella - Dec 10th 2003 05:13:01


> I used to use this when I was
> benchmarking some linux drives and
> thought it was great.
>
> Now I would like to use it to benchmark
> the drives on my Mac.
>
> Is there a port of Bonnie++ for Mac? If
> not, any plans for one?
>
> Max.
Bonnie++ works on Mac OS X. There is two problems.
The first is that readdir is unreliable on HFS+, one
should use fts_read instead which is not part of posix.

The second is a small wrong type casting in
getc_putc.cpp.
The problem is in line 168 :
wrote = write(FILE_FD, buf, min(sizeof(buf), (unsigned
int)file_size - size));

The type of sizeof is size_t. The typecast make Apple's
C++ choke on this line.

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[»] If you like Bonnie you'll love Iozone
by Capps - Mar 9th 2002 11:45:41

If you like Bonnie then you'll love Iozone.
Iozone has many more features than Bonnie
ever dreamed of. Such as:

Posix Async I/O
Throughput with processes or threads.
Cluster throughput testing.
mmap() testing.
Replay application access behavior testing.
and many more....
See: http://www.iozone.org

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