KDiskMark

KDiskMark is an HDD and SSD benchmark tool with a very friendly graphical user interface. KDiskMark with its presets and powerful GUI calls Flexible I/O Tester and handles the output to provide an easy to view and interpret comprehensive benchmark result. The application is written in C++ with Qt and doesn't have any KDE dependencies.

Features

• Configurable block size, queues, and threads count for each test
• Many languages support
• Report generation
• Terminal (TUI) mode for environments without a graphical display

Report Example

                        KDiskMark (3.0.0): https://github.com/JonMagon/KDiskMark
                    Flexible I/O Tester (fio-3.30): https://github.com/axboe/fio
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

[Read]
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   508.897 MB/s [    497.0 IOPS] < 13840.05 us>
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   438.278 MB/s [    428.0 IOPS] <  2280.14 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   354.657 MB/s [  88664.6 IOPS] <   352.37 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    44.166 MB/s [  11041.6 IOPS] <    88.48 us>

[Write]
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  8, T= 1):   460.312 MB/s [    449.5 IOPS] < 15153.11 us>
Sequential   1 MiB (Q=  1, T= 1):   333.085 MB/s [    325.3 IOPS] <  2349.82 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q= 32, T= 1):   315.170 MB/s [  78792.5 IOPS] <   383.86 us>
    Random   4 KiB (Q=  1, T= 1):    91.040 MB/s [  22760.3 IOPS] <    39.80 us>

Profile: Default
   Test: 1 GiB (x5) [Measure: 5 sec / Interval: 5 sec]
   Date: 2022-08-24 16:10:33
     OS: opensuse-tumbleweed 20220821 [linux 5.19.2-1-default]

Dependencies

Required

• GCC/Clang C++17 (or later)
• CMake >= 3.12
• Extra CMake Modules >= 5.73
• Qt with Widgets and DBus >= 5.9
• PolicyKit Agent
  • PolkitQt-1 bindings.
• Flexible I/O Tester with libaio >= 3.1
  • libaio development package.

External libraries

• SingleApplication prevents launch of multiple application instances.

Installation

Binaries are available on the Releases page.

Install from the Flathub repository

flatpak install flathub io.github.jonmagon.kdiskmark
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### Install from the Snap Store

> [!WARNING]  
> Package is no longer maintained. It will remain available on Snap Store but will receive no updates.

[![Get it from the Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-white.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/kdiskmark)
```bash
sudo snap install kdiskmark
sudo snap connect kdiskmark:removable-media # external storages
````

### Debian / Ubuntu based distros

```bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdiskmark

Ubuntu users can also use the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonmagon/kdiskmark
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdiskmark

Arch based distros

Available in the extra repository:

sudo pacman -Syu kdiskmark

Development version from AUR:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/kdiskmark-git.git
cd kdiskmark-git
makepkg -si

Fedora

Available in the Fedora repository:

sudo dnf install kdiskmark

openSUSE Tumbleweed

Available in the openSUSE Factory repository:

sudo zypper install kdiskmark

Terminal mode (TUI)

KDiskMark can be used without a graphical environment (e.g. on a server or a virtual console). When no graphical display is available, an interactive full-screen terminal interface starts automatically; from a desktop terminal it can be forced with the --tui option:

kdiskmark --tui
kdiskmark --tui /mnt/data   # adds the directory to the storage list

Everything configurable in the GUI is also editable in the TUI: profile, file size, loops count, storage (including adding an arbitrary directory), comparison unit, mix ratio, and language on the main screen; queues/threads per test, measuring and interval time, mode, test data, page cache flushing, O_DIRECT, CoW detection, and presets on the settings screen. The configuration is shared with the GUI.

Keys: Up/Down — navigation, Left/Right — change a value, Enter — run all tests or the focused one (on the Storage field — add a directory), E — settings screen, S — save the report, R — rescan storages, Q — quit.

Administrator privileges are requested over polkit, as in the GUI. On a virtual console the text agent pkttyagent is used automatically. In an SSH session polkit usually denies authentication for non-local users, so run the application as root there:

sudo kdiskmark --tui

Building

Building a package using CPack

You can build KDiskMark by using the following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cpack -G DEB # Or RPM, ZIP etc.

Building with Qt5

To build KDiskMark with Qt5 instead of the default Qt6, use the USE_QT5 flag during the CMake configuration step:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D USE_QT5=ON ..
cpack -G DEB # Or RPM, ZIP etc.

Localization

To help with localization you can use Crowdin or translate files in data/translations with Qt Linguist directly. To add a new language, copy data/translations/kdiskmark.ts to data/translations/kdiskmark_<ISO 639-1 language code>_<ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 language code>.ts, translate it, then add the file to the TS_FILES variable in CMakeLists.txt, and create a pull request. It is also possible to add localized Comment and Keywords sections into data/kdiskmark.desktop and message for PolicyKit authorization into data/dev.jonmagon.kdiskmark.helper.policy.

Languages currently available: * Chinese (Simplified) * Chinese (Traditional) * Czech * Dutch * English (default) * Finnish * French * German * Hindi * Hungarian * Italian * Japanese * Korean * Polish * Portuguese (Brazilian) * Russian * Slovak * Spanish (Mexico) * Spanish (Spain) * Swedish * Turkish * Ukrainian

TODO

• [x] Text-based user interface
• [x] Performance profiles (mix, peak, real-world)

Special Thanks

• Artem Grinev (agrinev@manjaro.org) for his help with assembling the AppImage package.

Thanks to the package maintainers, translators, and all users for supporting the project.

Credits

Application Icon
Copyright (c) https://www.iconfinder.com/baitisstudio

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