Bonnie(1)

💅 Bonnie(1) — the file system benchmark, bestie edition

okay so picture this: a whole manual page about Bonnie, the icon herself, and she is literally a File system benchmark 🎀 that's the whole name section, we ate.

She measures the performance of UNIX filesystem operations, and for the deets you go to http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/ ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

run her like this, no cap:

Bonnie [-d scratch-dir] [-html] [-m machine-label] [-s size-in-MiB]
[-v nor-of-volumes] [-S no-of-seeks] [-p no-of-seekers] [-y] [-u]
[-o_direct] [-Y blkdev]

💀 quick vibe check: -u shows up right there in the synopsis but the options list below literally does not describe it. that's all the page says, bestie, i'm not gonna make stuff up 🙈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

every single flag, in order, untouched, character for character, periodt:

• -d scratch-dir — Write scratch file in named directory (default: ".")
• -html — Generate HTML output 🦋
• -m machine-label — use machine-label to label report 🏷️
• -s size-in-MiB — how many MiB to use for testing (default: 100)
• -v no-of-volumes — how many test files (volumes) to use
• -S no-of-seeks — how many seeks should be done
• -p no-of-seekers — how many processes should be spawned for seeking
• -y — fsync() after each operation 🔥
• -o_direct — bypass kernel pagecache by using O_DIRECT
• -Y blkdev — flush buffer cache after each test

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so like — Bonnie measures the performance of UNIX filesystem operations 💖 that's the whole assignment, she runs her little tests and tells you how fast things went.

for details, see http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/ ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bonnie was written by Tim Bray, (tbray@textuality.com) 🫶 and Bonnie is copyrighted 1990-1996 by Tim Bray 😭 iconic run fr.

for details, see http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/copyright.html 🌈

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🌸 so yeah, that's the page! sign-off time: this gem is brought to you by Textuality, version 2.0.6, and it's filed under Bonnie(1) in the General Commands Manual — slay, go benchmark something, ily 💅💖