Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:10:26 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Seth M. Landsman" <> | | Subject | Re: Kernel testing |
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On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Linux 2.1 is to a great extent that stuff ready for testing. If you want > > to put a bunch of people together to write the "brutalize kernel" suite > > please do - it would be a great project for use on all OS's > > A formalized testing process would be great - I'm envisioning a collection > of people with spare machines, each with slightly different configs, > downloading a kernel patch and a test suite patch, building the kernel, > rebooting, and then building and running an automated test suite for a day > or two ("make test"). The test suite might consist of a giant Perl script > coordinating a bunch of programs like crashme, lmbench, TCP/IP exercisers, > scripts to abuse various file systems and devices, and so on. It could > even include automatic reporting to a central database of some sort. > Hopefully with enough participants, a decent subset of possible kernel and > hardware configurations and features could be checked and we'd have some > data to point to for people with reliability concerns ("This kernel has > been tested on 150 different configurations for a total of 7200 hours > without crashing, enjoy.").
FWIW, this is a great idea, and I'll help (not volunteer to coordinate, but help) write this thing if there is an interest ... The one caveat I see is that we should create a test suite that will run in approx. 6 hours. I would be (and I think so would others) willing to run this thing on my office machine, if I can set it going when I leave in the evening and have my machine back when I come in the next morning ...
-Seth
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