Command Crate: performance benchmarking

Commands by Topic

• Discard all data that is read from /dev/zero, used to test raw disk read speed (dd)
• Compresses random data, and discards the output. Used to put load on the CPU (bzip2, dd)
• Run the yes command in the background, to put a heavy load on the CPU (yes)
• Run parallel MD5 hash calculations on /dev/zero, to put a heavy load on the CPU (seq, md5)
• Write 1.8GB of zeros to a file, to test raw SSD write speed (dd)
• Benchmark encryption performance (cryptsetup)