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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:05:02 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        sad@mailaps.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hard drive bench
Message-ID:  <20031124003502.GR82843@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031123230121.G3319@tiscali.de>
References:  <200311232058.57532.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20031123230121.G3319@tiscali.de>

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On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 23:01:21 +0000, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>> Hi :)
>>
>> Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ?
>> I don't need anything fancy, just something like "hdparm -t" under Linux.
>
>  check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure the test files are
> at least the size of your RAM. Otherwise you'll be measuring the speed
> of the caching system, which is pretty fast on BSD.

Bonnie is for measuring system throughput, not disks.  Try rawio for
disks alone.

Greg
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