You should be able to get a good idea of the options from "man bonnie++". I've always just used the defaults with
bonnie++
Also, you'll find Gregs older notes are here
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pg-disktesting.htm
--- On Wed, 27/5/09, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PERFORM] running bonnie++
> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Date: Wednesday, 27 May, 2009, 2:24 PM
> Hey folks,
>
> During Greg Smith's lecture last week I could have sworn I
> saw on the
> screen at some point a really long command line for
> bonnie++ - with
> all the switches he uses.
>
> But checking his slides I don't see this.
>
> Am I mis-remembering?
>
> Can someone recommend the best way to run it? What
> combination of switches?
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
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