Stress testing your machine -- what program?

[William Park]

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

>
> 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.

kernel-2.6.38.2
ext4
-- 
William

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