CPU overload tool for Tru64

[Aco Blazeski]

Hi to all,

Is there any tool/command for loading CPUs in Tru64. I need that for testing purposes. I know that for solaris for example there is "nspin".
If anyone knows something similar for tru64 I would appreciate your time and comments :)

regards

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can use the "yes" command.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

I tend to use a trivial AWK or PERL one liner:

perl -e 'while (1+1==2){}'
or
perl -e '$i++ while (1);'
or
perl -e 'for (1..9999999){}'


Hein.

[Aco Blazeski]

Ivan, Heuvel thanks for your response.
These suggestions will do some of the job
But still, if there is any tool that can make a CPU load in more controlled way will be quite helpful for me.
For example if I have 6 CPUs, I want CPU 0 and CPU 1 to push to 100% load ...

Regards,

[Ivan Ferreira]

Use the runon command with the examples previously given.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

So you start a few?

perl -e 'for (1..9999999) {}' &
perl -e 'for (1..9999999) {}' &

Or you get more fancy in the perl and fork a controlled number of sub processes, waiting for them to finish at the end:

perl -e 'for (1..3) {if (!fork()){ for (1..999999){}}}; $x++ while (-1 != wait())"

Next step is probably to replace the
'for (1..9999999)'
with

'for (1..99) {for (1..99999){}; sleep(1)}}'

That is, alternate spinning with sleep, a number of times.

In the block/fork might be more realistic to do an exec of a task which is known to cause a given load and still a more or less realistic common task like some 'grep'.

If you think you need anything more fancy, then study up, or leave it to the experts!
IMHO, if you don't know how to cause/describe the load, then you are not likely to know how to correctly use the result either.

Cheers,
Hein van den Heuvel
HvdH Performance Consulting.

[Aco Blazeski]

Thanks people,

runon CPU_NUM "perl -e 'while (1+1==2){}'"

definitely freaks out the CPU which was my goal.

In case you didn't see it, maybe you can help me on this one:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1093218

Thanks a lot again,
Regards