From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 19:13:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D559D37B404 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0343FA3 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3F2DMJP017103; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E9B6AC2.8090809@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:22 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonas References: <02b101c302f0$9fe00090$0800a8c0@master> In-Reply-To: <02b101c302f0$9fe00090$0800a8c0@master> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: 'FreeBSD User Questions List' Subject: Re: Stress-test script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:13:25 -0000 Jonas wrote: > I have a 4.7 server that have been freezing up under moderate load. I > have changed some hardware and done a BIOS upgrade and would like to > stress-test the server. > > Does anyone have a script or some command I can issue that would really > stress the server? I usually do a "make buildworld" as that stresses pretty much everything at once (aside from the network, unless you have the /usr/src directory NFS mounted) There are also programs for stressing specific parts of the system: memtest, cpuburn and bonnie++ (I know that bonnie++ is for measuring performance, but I've found that it works well as a stress test for hard drives as well) If you really want to push it, try all four running at once for a few hours ... that oughta prove the machine. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com