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SubjectRe: [Announce] Linux Test Project
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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