On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, josh wrote:
> A while back I had problems with running squid on a Cobalt RaQ
> XTR. Then I realized it had to do with how swap was triggered. Since
> squid actually has a setting that tells squid how much ram to swallow
> on startup it is a very good basic tester of available ram and swap funtion.
Not really...
> I have been using squid like this but it is not perfect. For instance
> the reports and log files are not those of a diagnostic program. Can
> someone suggest a better alternative for testing ram and disk swapping.
RAM Test: memtest86 (on X86 type hardware only)
Swap test: the attached silly program could be useful..
General system health: Repeated Linux kernel compiles, in parallell to
stress VM system even more..
Regards
Henrik
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char *buf;
int i;
int size;
size=atoi(argv[1]);
buf=calloc(size * 1024,1);
for(;;)
for(i=0;i<size;i++) {
buf[i*1024]=buf[(size-i)*1024-1];
}
}
