I found a good one! Didn't crash my box, just got *really* slow. While
I was in WindowMaker, in an Xterm, I typed "start Kde". So, Kde starts,
my KDE background and icons pop up, everything looks like Kde, but the
icons from WM are still there, and the window boarders are WM, as well
as the right click pop up menu. Strange. So I went to bed, and when I
was fixing coffee this AM, I could here some disk activity. Hmmm...
Took my screen saver 1-2 secs to respond. Apparently, my sys was
running entirely on swap, of which only 23mb's was left, so it took
sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what
would disk swapping be comparable to?
Later
-Josh
Simon Norris wrote:
>
> >From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever
> type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be
> reasonably easy to write a short shell script to spawn an infinite number of
> windows, record the count somewhere, and when (if) it crashes, you can go
> back to the log and see how many windows were open when it crashed.
>
> A common one, again for Unix but should be transferrable to Linux, is to
> open many sessions using the 'top' command in each. Top displays a real time
> monitor of the top ten processes running, and can be an effective load
> testing tool, as it doesn't do anything to the system, it just watches.
>
> However, you may find you're chasing something that doesn't exist. If the
> reliability is anything like what I've seen so far, you will never see it
> crash, it will just get slower and slower, until it seems to stop.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:41 AM
> Subject: [newbie] crash tests....
>
> I had to do it. After having been a Linux user for ~month, I had to do
> the CRASH TEST on my system. Opening multiple netscape windows should
> be an easy way to crash a system, right? Right now, I've opened 12
> navigator windows, 1 composer window, messenger, Kpackage, Font manager,
> system information (memory),2 text editors, Mahjongg, CD player, 2
> KFM's, and 2 Konsole's, Kppp, and of course, this window here :-)
>
> Question: What would be a tougher test? 27 windows seems like alot,
> but it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Maybe since most of these
> windows aren't really doing anything but waiting? My free swap is at
> 52.68/96.43MB's and I still have 1.4/48mb's of free RAM. We'll see what
> I can do to crash my box... Not that I want to crash my box, just have
> to see how far I can push it. I'm not blessed w/ a newer, post '97
> system w/ a fat HD and tons of RAM w/ a 300+mhz CPU.
> Later...
> -Josh
