Other possible projects:

http://www.iometer.org/

This is a utility called aio-stress that is a single source file you'll need to compile:

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/src/branches/ocfs2-1.2/commit-tests/tests/aio-stress/

Good luck,
Romeo

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Roscoe P Coltraine <westlaguy@gmail.com> wrote:
i want to generate and measure as much load as possible on a unix host via nfs to our filer to capture the max throughput the host
can generate.  we have used iozone but this does not generally saturate the server or the filer.  what i am looking for is something along the lines of
host can sustain X MB/sec throughput and at the same time measure the filers performance/response.

im sure someone has a page with tools on this somewhere




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