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IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool

IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

GNOME Disks is free and open source software to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.

Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite (LLCbench) is a suite of three different benchmark applications.

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.

Lustre is a massively, global, parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing.

OrangeFS is an open-source, multi-server scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments.

stress-ng is designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.

noise-repellent is a suite of lv2 plugins for noise reduction that uses the libspecbleach C library. It’s free and open source software.

Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.

Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

Sedna is a free and open source native XML database which provides a full range of core database services.

Geomview is interactive geometry software for mathematics research and education. It’s free and open source software.