Chapter 8. Open system servers - Linux for xSeries 301
Seeks
Multiple processes do random lseek(). The idea of using multiple processes is to always
have outstanding lseek() requests, so the device (disk) stays busy. Seek time is an
indication of how good your OS can order seeks and how fast your hardware actually can
do random accesses.
8.6.2 Downloading
For downloading Bonnie, go to the following Web site:
http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/download.html
Once there you find the sources of bonnie-1.4, selecting:
Source tar ball, gzipped
Source tar ball, bzipped2
Source RPM (SuSE Linux)
i386™ binary RPM (SuSE Linux 7.1+)
Alpha binary RPM (SuSE Linux 7.1+)
Installation and compilation should be straightforward. For Linux, your easiest ...