[Gllug] machine load testing

David Irvine Maillist at glasgownet.com
Mon Dec 2 15:55:55 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:21, Adam Bower wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just installed a new machine today which is a hand me down from 
> another part of the company which has been reported to "perhaps have a 
> hardware fault" so what I would like to do is really stress test the 
> machine RAM+CPU+disk all at the same time. Does anybody know of a good 
> tool to do this? All it seems you can get are tools that do each 
> component 1 at a time, but i want to do it from just 1 tool.
> 
> Thanks
> Adam
> 
> 

try the xhpl benchmark, you set it to use a larger than normal matrix
which will subsequently start swapping like crazy to test your disk as
well as hammering cpu/memory.

D

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