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pipebench
Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum.
| Tags | Communications education Testing Software Development Benchmark Monitoring Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD Linux Unix |
Recent releases
- 20 Apr 2003 12:26
Changes: A Solaris compilation problem was fixed. The bufsize option (-b) is actually used now. A switch for skipping conversion to units (kilo, Mega, etc.) was added.
- 18 Apr 2003 13:32
Changes: This release adds a license file, support to redirect status, and a switch for 1000-based units (as opposed to 1024).
- 12 Jan 2003 18:04
Changes: Ported to Solaris.
- 18 Dec 2002 06:28
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- All comments
Recent commentsA great tool
It's perfect for benchmarking programs that are normally very quite. I used it to watch the speed of dd and it works like a charm:
dd if=/dev/hdd | pipebench | dd of=/dev/hdc