Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 1997 21:58:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Linux Stability & cold.system |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> > So, some people (myself included) have put forth some ideas on some way > > of actually MEASURING the stability of kernels. One of my favorite was > > one somebody else mentioned: have a utility kind of like the 'make > > check' things that come with bash that tests the kernel currently > > running for stability, memory leaks, etc. I know people have > > "kernel-killers" out there :) If some standard test suite were > > available, then everyone could upload their results. > > I've been (unofficially, of course) collecting stress scripts since a > similar thread back in September. I'm hoping to put together a > package of them around Christmastime for everyone's enjoyment. > Naturally, I'm looking for additional suggestions from everyone on the > list; what are the "killer scripts" and other killer workload > generators you use to torture those "small, fuzzy kernels"? ;-)
My favourite stress tester is repeated kernel compiles, plus the same again in a chroot'ed mount-point. This mount-point is mounted via NFS from the same box.
It's more of a hardware test than anything else (although I suppose it uses the fs code a fair bit :-), so you'd obviously want to add some big ftp sessions in the background, fire up X/netscrape, and perhaps play a bit of quake (with about 1 frame/min by this stage :).
Anyone else have useful sadistic tricks?
Matthew.
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