Stress testing a server, need some help here.

[Adul]

A friend of mine is building a server for a customer. He wants to stress test it all.

I off course suggest rc5 and seti. But that doesn't cover disk i/o. So I suggested encoding a DVD or two. Other then what I have suggested, is there anythig else you can would like to add?

 

[Fingers]

set it up as a temporary proxy for the seti team.

edit: I still think the dvd encoding may be a little more stressfull

 

[vss1980]

DVD encoding only really stresses CPU power, the disk I/O should be able to keep up with little trouble.

Sisoft Sandra has a drive benchmark test which is fairly stressful and also features a burin-in test option. I think it is customisable so you may be able to just select it to hammer the hard-drives.

 

[Possessed Freak]

ummm, copy some large ass files back and forth for a while to different partitions, think of a batch that calls itself...

runme.bat
move c:\temp\file.big d:\temp
move d:\temp\file.big c:\temp
runme

 

[RaySun2Be]

Have a UPS delivery person drop a $30,000 server off the back of a truck at the customer site. That produces a LOT of stress. :Q

You can also find out how well the server and it's parts were made. :Q

You can also find out how good a relationship you have with the customer. :Q

Yu can also find out how good your lawyer is when UPS refuses to honor the insurance claim. :Q

You might also get to re-test the server when it's returned, using Klinux. Currently running for 5 days straight, 3.94Mkeys a second. 😀
(gotta look for that silver lining, right? 😉)


Oh and PF, you can use the GOTO function:

runme.bat would contain:

:LOOP1
move c:\temp\file.big d:\temp
move d:\temp\file.big c:\temp
GOTO LOOP1

If you are in that window, a <Ctrl> <C> or <Ctrl> <Break> should stop the script.

You could create another bat file that moved/copied a large file or two from D: to C:, and start up both BAT files at the same time. That should keep it busy. 🙂

 

[Choralone]

lol Ray! 🙂

 

[Dale]

Adul <building a server for a customer>

ZiffDavis

from your question I am guessing it is a M$ file server??

..Dale

 

[Adul]

thanks guys, I know you would help. 🙂