On May 3, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Jeff Trout wrote:
> Bonnie++ is able to use very large datasets. It also tries to
> figure out hte size you want (2x ram) - the original bonnie is
> limited to 2GB.
but you have to be careful building bonnie++ since it has bad
assumptions about which systems can do large files... eg, on FreeBSD
it doesn't try large files unless you patch it appropriately (which
the freebsd port does for you).