Stuart Jansen wrote:
They exist. I've run across some pretty sucky sites that max my
processor whenever I perform certain actions or scroll the window.

I know what you mean. Pretty much any JavaScript intensive site pegs my iPod Touch CPU (supposedly Apple is addressing this in the 2.0 software), but I think the OP was talking about server side. Re-reading the post, I think that's the case:

> The test is going to be using Siege to throw a whole bunch of web requests
> at the machine and see how the CPU holds up.

It'd be easy enough to write a memory/cpu intensive web application (heck, a bash fork bomb or tight while loop would do the job, if installed as a CGI).

--Dave

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