We already know how to measure the speed of our Ethernet through this article I wrote using iperf. Now let’s measure the speed of our records, very useful to identify eventual Bacula backup bottlenecks.
Linux Reading (FD):
The dd command can be used to measure the read speed of a file, as in the following example.
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches time dd if=/mnt/<moont>/<big_file> of=/dev/null bs=8k
Another nice software to do that is hdparm.
sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 12960 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6484.97 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 398 MB in 3.00 seconds = 132.56 MB/sec
The values for each execution may suffer a small variance for each execution, but serve as a good parameter to know the ability to verify machines with Bacula Clients.
Leitura Windows (FD):
Open an elevated command prompt: click Start and type cmd in the search box.
Right-click cmd and select Run as administrator.
In the command prompt window, type:
winsat disk -drive c
…where ‘c’ is the unit you want to test).
You should see a response similar to the following:
Ref.: https://blog.zensoftware.co.uk/2014/09/08/handy-windows-built-in-tool-to-test-drive-performance/
Linux Writing (SD):
In this case, we will use the old dd again.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output bs=8k count=250k; rm -f /tmp/output 256000+0 records in 256000+0 records out 2097152000 bytes (2,1 GB) copied, 16,5959 s, 126 MB/s
I chose 250k granularity to have significant total data for the test (2.1 GB) , but a larger test size may be more accurate and compatible with your actual workload .
If you do not have a file system still on disk, you can run the test as follows:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output bs=8k count=10k; rm -f /tmp/output
The end!
Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/87035/how-to-check-hard-disk-performance
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