[Gllug] machine load testing

[Adam Bower]

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 =)

Adam


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