Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:36:19 +1100 From: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: STressing a new server... Message-ID: <43B891A3.7040602@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <20060101212007.GA87257@thought.org> References: <20060101212007.GA87257@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in "stuff" > it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and > other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of > pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator > that the HW would last. After 4+ years, no prob. Now I > have a new box, custom built. > > Unfortunately, I've lost (or forgotten!) the same of the > *.sh script and some of the utilities. So what should I > be running and with an example of args? Last time I believe > there were 5 or 6 stressors. > > Also, what's the memory testor utility calld? I have > a gig of DDR in this new puppy, and want to be sure that > every last BIT is good. > > Help much appreciated! > > gary > > There is Peter Holm's kernel stress test suite written to stress the hell out of FreeBSD http://www.holm.cc/stress/ As far as I know there are still some outstanding panics in FreeBSD it can trigger. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html Other then that theres just plenty of stuff in the benchmarks dir of the ports tree. Mike
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