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NAME

Bonnie - File system benchmark

SYNOPSIS

Bonnie [-d scratch-dir] [-html] [-m machine-label] [-s size-in-MiB] [-v nor-of-volumes] [-S no-of-seeks] [-p no-of-seekers] [-y] [-u] [-o_direct] [-Y blkdev]

OPTIONS


-d scratch-dir : Write scratch file in named directory (default: ".")
-html : Generate HTML output
-m machine-label : use <machine-label> to label report
-s size-in-MiB : how many MiB to use for testing (default: 100)
-v no-of-volumes : how many test files (volumes) to use
-S no-of-seeks : how many seeks should be done
-p no-of-seekers : how many processes should be spawned for seeking
-y : fsync() after each operation
-o_direct : bypass kernel pagecache by using O_DIRECT
-Y blkdev : flush buffer cache after each test

DESCRIPTION

Bonnie measures the performance of UNIX filesystem operations. For details, see http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/

AUTHOR

Bonnie was written by Tim Bray, (tbray@textuality.com), Bonnie is copyrighted 1990-1996 by Tim Bray. For details, see http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/copyright.html

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