blogbench(8)

💅 blogbench — the manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so you found blogbench(8) — that's the Benchmarks section of the manual, in case the (8) was giving you mystery vibes 🎀. Let's get into it fr fr.

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✨ NAME ✨

blogbench — a realistic filesystem benchmark. Yes, realistic. Not one of those fake-out benchmarks that folds the second you look at it. This one's giving main character energy 👑

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🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

blogbench -d <directory>

That's literally it. One flag. One directory. Iconic, low-effort, high-reward 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So blogbench is a portable filesystem benchmark, and here's the whole vibe: it tries to reproduce the load of a real-world busy file server. Like, an actual one. With actual people hammering it. Not a lab scenario, not a perfect little test case — the messy real thing 😭

It stresses the filesystem by running multiple threads that perform random reads, writes and rewrites — all at the same time, all chaotic, all on purpose 🌀 — and the entire point is to get a realistic idea of the scalability and the concurrency a system can actually handle.

Translation: it's a vibe check for your filesystem's ability to multitask 🫶

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• --help — displays a complete list of available switches. Yup, that's the only one listed here, and no we're not gatekeeping, that's genuinely what the page says 🙈

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

The minimal way to run the test — the bare minimum, the "I woke up and chose benchmarks" route — is to just hand it the path to an empty and writable directory:

blogbench -d /path/to/the/directory

Then blogbench starts up all the threads it needs (it handles that part, not you, you're welcome) and the test runs for 5 minutes ⏱️. When it's done, a final "score" gets handed to you as an indication of read and write performance. That's the number you screenshot and send to the group chat 📸✨

Heads up: the directory has to be empty and writable. Don't be out here pointing it at your home folder, bestie 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Frank Denis — <j at pureftpd.org> 💌

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🎀 the cute sign-off 🎀

so this little masterpiece of documentation was written by Frank Denis, it's version 1.2, and it lives happily under the name blogbench(8). Go stress a filesystem responsibly 🦋💖 periodt ✨