About 2-3 weeks ago I got assignment to do some serious torturing with the goal of NFS performance debugging and optimization. My original intent was just to use dd and measure read and writes over NFS while changing the block sizes as well as playing with fire async/sync option. However as I am learning little bit about the topic I realized that there is a slue of performance testing tools
http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Testing_tools#DBench that I was completely ignorant about. Apparently one of those tools originating at SGI fsstress was preserved from oblivion by DragonFly community. Thus I got idea to solicit advise from this community regarding my original task. Any comments, pointers, paper references would be appreciated. Most Kind Regards, Predrag Punosevac
