Tim Wright is on permanent record as saying: :On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, C Falconer wrote: : :> Whats a good way to simulate load on a server? I've flood-pinged it for :> 10 minutes, and the staff are complaining about network response to the :> other server! :) : :you could compile the kernel, or do something like this under bash:
[snip] :of course, that'll load up your CPU not your memory. I've found editing large audio files to be a bit of a memory hog. Something on the order of 200MB dumped into memory and flipped around. Alternatively, for disc and CPU access, I had pretty effective loading last night with a sin approximation test that I was running over 1024*8192 iterations and dumping the results to file... Greg --- -
