Stress testing your machine -- what program?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:46:46PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> When there is nothing going on, hdparm, dd, kernel compile, etc., gives
> expected numbers.  When things are going on, however, my machine
> crawls/freezes/stutters in a way that is not linear in terms of system
> load.  I looked at swap, and it's not even using swap.
> 
> I found StressLinux from <distrowatch.com>... downloading...

So which kernel version?  Some filesystems and some kernel versions have
pretty bad bahaviour under some types of load.

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Len Sorensen
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