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Does RedHat9 have a device exercise utility, like cstm in the HPUX world? I have a dual processor system that I am trying to push. I've been using seti to push the processors.

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Mark Grant
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Re: Linux Diag

I don't think there is anything specific but here is a web page that gives you loads of benchmarking tests you can download and try.

http://lbs.sourceforge.net/

Or try this

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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Linux Diag

Robert,

The dd command is in most Linux distributions. The dd command from your HP-9000 server will with limited modifications allow you to do read testing under Linux.

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Paul Cross_1
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Re: Linux Diag

I'll second that, depending on what you are looking for. dd wont output any stats at the end, but it sure will excercise your disks!
ex: dd if=/dev/mydisk of=/dev/null
Ragu_1
Regular Advisor

Re: Linux Diag

A good CDROM and HDD exercizer is the `readcd' uty in the cdrtools package. It output can also be re-directed to /dev/null to heat up the inside of your computer case,particularly so during cold winter nights inside the server room. ;-)
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Stuart Browne
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Re: Linux Diag

If 'bonnie' is still around, it's an IO benchmarking tool. Good thrashing of IO.

As for Processor however, I'm really not sure.

The last big machine I tried testing (Quad PIII 800Mhz), I ended up running sowhere in the vicinity of 80 find/grep's doing bits and pieces before it would even use 50% of all of them.. Un-good. (Incidentally, RAID cache is a *MUST!* :P).
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Martin P.J. Zinser
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Re: Linux Diag

Bonnie can be found e.g. at

ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ix/benches/bonnie/

iX uses bonnie regular to benchmark various
systems.

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James A. Donovan
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Re: Linux Diag

You might want to take a look at stresslinux

http://www.stresslinux.org/
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