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IOzone

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Original author(s)
  
William Norcott

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Type
  
Benchmark

Written in
  
C

Available in
  
English

Stable release
  
3.408 / May 10, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-05-10)

IOzone is a file system benchmark utility. Originally made by William Norcott, further enhanced by Don Capps and others..

Source code is available from iozone.org. It does mmap() file I/O and uses POSIX Threads.

It won the 2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards for Best file I/O tool.

The Windows version of IOzone uses Cygwin. Builds are available for AIX, BSDI, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSFV3, OSFV4, OSFV5, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2K/XP).

It is available as a test profile in the Phoronix Test Suite.

References

IOzone Wikipedia