Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:26:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: killing 2.0.31-pre9 |
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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, ADAM Sulmicki wrote:
> Here is another easy way to 'kill' pre9.. at least worked for me > It does not literally kill it but makes it pretty unusable .. > > first > dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/null (it is around 5 gb data) > make -j zImage ( 3.0.31+pre9+serial.console) > ping -f foo (local ethernet, just two hosts) > now to kill it replace the last line /w > > ping -f -s 1024 foo > > uptimes goes to 80.0 .. the swap usage increases.. > soon you can notice zobime proceses and in end
How much RAM did you have during this test? I just did it on 2.0.31-pre9 SMP on my Tomcat II with 64mb and saw load avgs in the low teens but nothing catastrophic. I have much smaller disks (500mb SCSI on NCR 810), but did a dd reading each simultaneously.
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