On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:30:54PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > Anyone want to comment on how best to setup a stress-test lab -and- report the > results back to the kernel devs? The most interesting test for them would be your particular load, "your itch." OSDL has huge machines with which to generate synthetic loads (the particular machine that sparked the discussion that led to the quote in the article has "4-way SMP, 1.6 GHz Intel itanium2, 64GB memory, 450 73GB 15k-rpm disks" [1]. Hard to beat that with "spare" machines. So, run the favorite load: spam checking the TCLUG postings, generating the indexed web mail archive, kernel compiles with your particular configuration, stress-test your web application... Cheers, florin 1: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.3/1098.html -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050330/2cb46ad9/attachment-0001.pgp