Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:06:52 -0800 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: STressing a new server... Message-ID: <20060102180652.GA81087@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20060102105418.EA25316A433@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060102105418.EA25316A433@hub.freebsd.org>
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A buildworld is indeed an excellent test of memory, CPU, drives and cabling. The memory tester is sysutils/memtest. It's not a very scientific test, but one thing I do is a make -j8 buildworld whilst I do a large tar operation, optionally with compression. Just anecdotally it appears that tar likes to use lots of memory. I usually do some sort of file system move, ala: tar jcf - original | tar xpvf - -C copy Make sure you have enough disk space to burn. This has caught dodgy memory on servers in the past. Jim
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