Greetings,

I'm trying to test the speed betwen a file/application server and
it's external storage device. It seems to be a huge bottleneck in
local file transfers. Or if just could be a problem due to
transferring to the external disk which is an NFS mount.

What I want to be able to do is test speed from the server
itself, and then from one of the machines which has the external
disk mounted via NFS.

Does anyone have a tool they can recommend to do this? (Outside
of simply copying a large file from the external disk to a local
disk on each of the machines and hope I can do math.)

Much appreciated.


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Seth H Holmes

In <slrnbmeb53.f5f.sholmes@dweezil.route-fu.net> Seth H Holmes <sholmes@dweezil.NOSPAMFORMEroute-fu.net> writes:

>What I want to be able to do is test speed from the server
>itself, and then from one of the machines which has the external
>disk mounted via NFS.

bonnie[1] or bonnie++[2].

Regards,
Greg

[1] http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/
[2] http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
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In article <bk7h5k$qth$1@reader2.panix.com>, Greg Mortensen wrote:
> In <slrnbmeb53.f5f.sholmes@dweezil.route-fu.net> Seth H Holmes <sholmes@dweezil.NOSPAMFORMEroute-fu.net> writes:
>
>>What I want to be able to do is test speed from the server
>>itself, and then from one of the machines which has the external
>>disk mounted via NFS.
>
> bonnie[1] or bonnie++[2].
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
> [1] http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/
> [2] http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/

Thanks. I'll give it a try.


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Seth H Holmes