Stress Testing

[david thornton]

Byron Sonne 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.
>>>      
>>>
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>If you're just talking about basic 'burn in' and smoke testing the box,
>I've found that perpetually looping an automated Linux install works
>pretty good. Alot of i/o, and I like to think that the hardware
>detection routines flex the peripherals a good bit. That might be
>wishful thinking though.
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I dunno if that's such a good test these days... automated install only 
take me 55 seconds... yes that's right I actually had to brag about my 
new personal best for a default server build....

and it was RHEL 4!!!!!

Proliant G5 with a single SAS system mirror over 100 meg wee!-thernet... 
I was flaberghasted when I saw it.

now back to you regularly scheduled tech talk.

David Thornton


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