Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:01:25 -0400 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] Linux Test Project |
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:48:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:06:28PM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote: > > > > - What is needed immediately? Building a test suite for the kernel is > > going to take time. What tests or tools are most important? > > Interesting would be a test suite stress that tests common system calls > in parallel on multiple CPUs. I would guess that could catch a lot of > locking bugs introduced with the 2.4 SMP scaling work. > > I think that would be very useful for a good 2.4 release.
tridge has a tool like this for testing samba. it opens n pipes to m servers and sends a random stream of smb commands to all of them. it then checks whether there are differences between the returned packets from each of the servers.
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