| bonnie++ | Based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray | |
| bootchart | A 'startup' graphing tool | |
| cpuburn | CPU testing utilities in optimized assembler for maximum loading of CPUs | |
| gtkperf | An application designed to test GTK+ performance | |
| httperf | A tool for measuring web server performance. | |
| i7z | A better i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool for Linux | |
| jmeter | A Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance | |
| phoronix-test-suite | The most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for Linux | |
| siege | An http regression testing and benchmarking utility | |
| stress | A tool that stress tests your system (CPU, memory, I/O, disks) |