Stress Testing

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 22 January 2007 12:22, Randy Jonasz wrote:

> I've been given a server at work to "stress test" the hardware.  The
> server will be used as a java server, running tomcat.  Any suggestions
> for software to use?  I'm currently running memtest86.

One thing I always do as a rule these days when I receive new hardware is 
stress test the disk subsystem.  A simple run with bonnie++ has 
yieled "funny" results for me in the past ... lets just say that some of 
those fancy-schmancy raid controllers don't live up to their billing ;-)

Stresslinux.org looks like an easy way to get bonnie++ and more (someone else 
mentioned it), I'll definitely be checking that out.

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