Learn about Fio: Fio Fio Basics Compile Fio Visualize Fio Logs with fio2gnuplot Fio is a tool for measuring IO performance. This article shows how you can compile Fio yourself with the associated source code . You can also use the Read more…
Learn about Fio: Fio Fio Basics Compile Fio Visualize Fio Logs with fio2gnuplot Fio is an acronym for Flexible IO Tester and refers to a tool for measuring IO performance. With Fio, devices such as hard drives or Read more…
Learn about Fio: Fio Fio Basics Compile Fio Visualize Fio Logs with fio2gnuplot What is Fio? Fio (Flexible I / O Tester) is an I / O performance benchmarking tool for Linux, other Unix systems as Read more…
Complementing a simple Samba release, this article shows how to create a username and password based Samba share using a Debian 8 based system. Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 are used as client software for testing the connection . Installation and configuration Read more…
Compiling a Linux kernel is not an everyday occurrence for most administrators. It is all the more important to know the right tools when the time comes. The following article shows examples of how Mainline / Vanilla Kernel and the distribution-specific kernel Read more…
With the program Wireshark you can read traffic from your network (sniff). In the example you see the possibility to analyze HTTP traffic. Example HTTP traffic On the start page, you can choose which interface to Read more…
The command-line tool iw allows a variety of configuration options for wireless devices. Since the power management concerning. The transmitting / receiving performance with some cards is problematic, you can disable this in Linux. The article shows how to install Read more…
This article describes how to create a static ARP entry on Linux and Windows. Static ARP entries for important network components in the same Layer 2 segment provide some protection against ARP spoofing. Ubuntu / Debian Read more…
The Linux tool mpstat provides information about the utilization of the individual CPUs of a system. For multi-core CPUs, each core is displayed as a CPU. Hyperthreaded CPUs display two CPUs per physical CPU or physical core. For most Linux Read more…
On Linux, the time command can be used to measure the execution time for a command line program. This article shows this with the example of the updatedb program. call The timecommand is simply given before the program to Read more…
