Benchmark Quick Hacks

netcat

Client : dd if=/dev/zero bs=1460 count=$((1024 * 1024)) | nc -v $remote_IP (sends 1.5G across the wire)

Server : nc -l 1234 > /dev/null

dd

example 1 - 1000 1MB files

dd if=/dev/zero of=$FS_TO_BENCHMARK bs=1M count=1000

This can be a remote or local FS

SSL

openssl speed -multi 3

-multi is set to the number of processors you have.

-help for more options