| Original author(s) | William Norcott |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Don Capps, et al |
| Stable release |
3.465 / August 16, 2016
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| Written in | C |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Benchmark |
| Website | iozone |
IOzone is a file system benchmark utility. Originally made by William Norcott, further enhanced by Don Capps and others..
Source code is available from iozone.org. It does mmap() file I/O and uses POSIX Threads.
It won the 2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards for Best file I/O tool.
The Windows version of IOzone uses Cygwin. Builds are available for AIX, BSDI, HP-UX, IRIX, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSFV3, OSFV4, OSFV5, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2K/XP).
It is available as a test profile in the Phoronix Test Suite.