Filebench

Filebench is a Linux file-system and storage benchmark that generates workloads to examine I/O behavior. It supports micro- and macro-benchmarking, with random and sequential tests, IOPS measurement, and latency measurement. Users can describe application I/O patterns in Workload Model Language (WML), specifying filesets, processes, threads, and flow operations. The project includes workload personalities for mail, web, file, and database servers, and names webserver, fileserver, and mailserver as predefined examples. The documentation cautions that shipped workloads may not be sized for a particular system, and recommends copying and adjusting them. Filebench is free, with a listed plan price of free and no usage limits stated. It provides a command-line interface and runs on Linux. The README describes compiling and installing it with configure, make, and sudo make install; yacc and lex are required. The project directs questions, bug reports, and feature requests to GitHub Issues. Its license is the Common Development and Distribution License, Version 1.0.

Filebench offers customizable workloads alongside predefined examples for storage benchmarking. Users should account for its Linux platform and the documented build requirements.

Filebench suits Linux users who need to generate and customize storage workloads, including for mail, web, file, or database server patterns. It is a command-line tool that requires building and installing from source as described in its README.