1. Generating thousands of files for testing purposes

    Hello internet,

    Recently I was in a situation where I was asked to migrate a server to a different provider.

    I figured this would be trivial so I started with the usual rsync in a screen copy. I checked a few hours later and rsync was frozen.

    Further investigation revealed …


  2. Quick benchmark on Linux using UnixBench

    Updated on 06/18/2017 with new download links

    Stolen from here

    1. Download the source code:

    wget https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench/archive/v5.1.3.tar.gz
    

    2. Install dependencies for CentOS 6.x:

    yum install -y gcc time perl-Time-HiRes
    

    3. Untar and change directory:

    tar zxvf UnixBench5 …

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