Open Source Benchmark Software

lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into basic costs of key operations.

nmon is short for Nigel's Performance Monitor It either shows you the stats on-screen updating once a second or saves the data to a CSV file for later analysis and graphing. For details see the homepage ==> http://nmon.sourceforge.net Please use the latest version. The new version "njmon" outputs JSON format that a lot of tools use these days. It integrates well with saving data directly to InfluxDB and graphing with Grafana.

pdfcrack is a command line, password recovery tool for PDF-files.

Portable, fully-threaded I/O benchmark program

BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.

An easy to use JDBC benchmark that closely resembles the TPC-C standard for OLTP. RDBMS's presently supported include PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB and Oracle.

Prime95 is a popular software tool used primarily for stress testing and benchmarking computer processors by running intense calculations based on the Mersenne prime search algorithm. This rigorous testing helps users gauge system stability and detect potential issues, particularly useful for overclockers, hardware testers, and enthusiasts aiming for optimal CPU performance.

JDiskMark is a powerful and versatile disk benchmarking tool written in Java, designed to help you accurately measure the performance of your storage devices across different operating systems. Whether you're testing HDDs, SSDs, or network drives, JDiskMark provides reliable insights into your disk's read and write speeds. ubuntu/debian: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jdiskmark/files/jdiskmark_0.7.0_amd64.deb/download rhel / fedora: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jdiskmark/files/jdiskmark-0.7.0-1.x86_64.rpm/download macos: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jdiskmark/files/jdiskmark-0.7.0.pkg/download windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jdiskmark/files/jdiskmark-0.7.0.msi/download note: elevated privileges allow jdiskmark to automate clearing of disk cache. ZIP releases require java to be installed separately: * 0.6.3-current > jdk25 * 0.5.0-0.6.2 >jdk21 * 0.1-0.4 > Java 8

Having been a Mac OSX user now for some years I appreciate the simplicity of CoconutBattery (http://www.coconut-flavour.com/), which shows you all relevant information of the battery of your laptop (iBook, PowerBook, MacBook, ...) and has one outstanding feature: you can save the current health state of the laptop's battery and thus monitor the long term development (degradation) of the battery. Since I have to work in Windows at work :-( I was looking for a similar tool in the MS world. You can find a number of battery monitoring programs for MS Windows, which give you a plethora of (useless) information - or do not work at all. Finally I decided to make one of my own (the world waited for that so badly!). And here it is. Since I did not want to restrict it to Windows only I made it a GTK application, which is cross platform portable. I created the low level data gathering functions for both Windows and Linux. You are very welcome to add additional ports (e.g. BSD or whatever).

This benchmark suite is intend as a tool for the research community. It consists of a set of open source, real world applications with non-trivial memory loads.

File Read Test is a tool that reads disk files or directories and stops on the first read error. A second tool, Quick Disk Test, fills a disk with test data and verifies that it can be read back without errors.

Utility for testing CD/DVD quality and transfer rate written on C++ and Qt

Master/node to gather and graph "everything" on your systems using Tobi Oetiker's rrdtool. It can optionally warn your surveillance software. This software package was originally called LRRD. The project. Please see http://munin-monitoring.org/

The fs_mark benchmark tests synchronous write workloads. It can vary the number of files, directory depth, etc. It has detailed timings for reads, writes, unlinks and fsyncs that make it good for simulating mail servers and other setups.

Distributed session caching tools and APIs, primarily for SSL/TLS servers though perhaps useful for other (non-SSL/TLS) circumstances. Also includes a self-contained network abstraction library (libnal), and the sslswamp SSL/TLS benchmark/test utility.

The program thrulay is used to measure the capacity, delay, and other performance metrics of a network by sending a bulk TCP or UDP stream over it.

WebInject is a tool for automated testing of web applications and web services. It can be used to test system components with HTTP interfaces, as a test harness to create a suite of functional and regression tests, or for service-level monitoring.

Filebench is a file system and storage benchmark that can generate both micro- and macro-workloads. It employs versatile Workload Model Language (WML) for detailed workload specification. Filebench includes several popular macro-workloads in its distribution: Web-server, Mail-server, Database-server, and others.

cross-platform hard drive performance benchmark

BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

Research ways of making Linux scale better, both in terms of more processors and more processes.

The BSBM (Berlin SPARQL Benchmark) suite for benchmarking RDF stores or RDB-2-RDF wrappers over the SPARQL protocol. Pure RDBMS benchmarking via SQL is also possible. Visit http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/BerlinSPARQLBenchmark for more details.

Fract is a free, Open-source PC Benchmark based on realtime software rendering. It is designed to provide 100% unbiased results that really correspond to the raw performance of your CPU and system bus.

VDT - Visual Disk Test : performs I/O tests on files, partitions, and/or disks with visual feedback/follow-up, offering flexible test area selection by size, location, percent, or combinations thereof, plus test duration control by time or size.

Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization data and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS chart.