[Gllug] machine load testing

[Stephen Harker]

Adam Bower wrote:
> Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 
>> adjust the -j to taste depending on memory. 10 is about right to push the
>> ram past 128meg. 20 should be enough for quite a lot, 30 is getting to 
>> the
>> point where ulimits get in the way.
> 
> 
> Just for fun I tried the kernel thing anyhow, I started at -j 10 and it 
> wasn't very exciting, then -j 15, 20 30 and I got bored so I just tried 
> a make -j 50 bzImage and managed to get the load average to 51.46. The 
> box still didn't swap though, so it didn't really hammer the machine 
> enough I feel.
> 
> What I may have to do to really make it hurt is NFS mount one of its 
> disks and run bonnie on it over NFS (this is something I did accidentaly 
> once on a fileserver...) while building a kernel with make -j 50 =)

Why not mount /usr/src as NFS from another machine and do the kernel 
compile over NFS :-)
Steve


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