[rescue] Looking for a benchmark tool for Sol 8

[David Passmore]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:06:05PM -0000, Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for an I/O benchmark tool for Solaris 8 that actually compiles
> reliably. I've been using IOZone since the last time I had this problem and
> the thing just wont compile on some of the systems I work with. I know
> theres dependency failures but I cant seem to find all of them.
> 
> Anyway anyone have recommendations on a free I/O benchmarking tool for
> Solaris 8?

I use a homebrewed combination of Veritas' vxbench to generate load (though
this can be easily written in C) and scripts which analyze TNF output
gathered during the load generation session. 

Disclaimer: vxbench is free, but I think you have to ask Veritas for it.

David