CentOS - Nov 2005 - server exercising, stressing, and/or testing

greetings

would someone please point me to an excellent server exercising, stressing,
and/or testing program that will run on centos 4?

i want one that will not out and out destroy a machine so to speak...

...meaning testing is one thing, yet pounding a box in the hard drive
department over and above the cause or unnecessarily does not appeal to me.

fyi the box i want to test/stress this time is a compaq dl380 with 2 gig ram
and 4 drives in raid5 for simple internet services

thanks and kind regards,

 - rh

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Robert Hanson - Abba Communications
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It might be useful if you specify what aspects of the box you want to test.

CPU?  RAM?  Disk?

You mentioned disk, but is that all that you want to test?

Regards,
Greg

On 11/22/05, Robert <roberth at abbacomm.net>
wrote:
> greetings
>
Also, 5 minutes of search got me hammerhead and stress which are both
available from Dag's repository and are built for EL4.

Regards,
Greg

The Mersenne project has a TortureTest mode that has helped 
me find how far I can overclock CPU or RAM without running into errors.
It runs massive calculations and compares the results with pre-known 
values.  If this is run while a disk I/O and graphics test run, the collision 
problems between these memory users can be (hopefully) caught 
without regard to whether you overclock or not.

See: http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm

Brian Brunner
brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
(610)796-5838
>>> jlb17 at duke.edu 11/22/05 02:34PM >>>
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 at 11:30am, Robert wrote
> } It might be useful if you specify what aspects of the box you want to
> } test.
> }
> } CPU?  RAM?  Disk?
> }
> } You mentioned disk, but is that all that you want to test?
> }
> } Regards,
> } Greg
>
> i wish to test it all, everything, just not ummm extremely violently in
> terms of hard drive(s).
>
> so, if the hard drive testing part is ultimately configurable that would be
> great... i just dont feel like pounding the drives for hours and hours
>
> ummmmmmmmmm what are people using in this area?
>
> i am familiar with memtest and some of the other small stuff yet i am
> looking for practical list wisdom on this whole scenartio.
>
> thanks!
I've actually had pretty good luck with this little script:

http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html 

It's not *too* hard on the disks, although that part isn't configurable.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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