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Stress Testing - What Utilities?

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Windogg

Lifer
I just finished building a server at work and I want to just hammer it. I want everything worked out. RC5 and SETI are nice but I heard there is a dedicated CPU burnin utlity out there. I saw it on Kyle's site a while back but lost the link. I also want to get the hard drives really crankin to see how they stand up to heavy loads. What are the best utilites for testing data transfer? For a real world test I plan on having 50 users back up their email boxes all at once to see what happens.

Video benchmarking is a non issue. I could run Q3 or 3DMark but I'm sure it would be a slide show at 1024x768 on the integrated 4MB ATI Rage XL. 🙂

All suggestions welcome.

Windogg
 
run rc5 and seti while running your other stress test. 🙂 Actually I think zdnet has some utilities to stress the system.
 
Open up 'Calculator' from Program -> Accessories -> Calc

click on "view" and set on Scientific instead of Standard

Type 150000 then press N! button on left

This will stress the crap out of ur raw CPU power, and you'll often receive a pop-up saying:

"The requested operation may take a very long time to complete. Do you want to let the calculator continue?"

click continue or no... it usually takes about 10 mins for me finish.

*warning* this has been proven to raise ur CPU temperature by 10 degrees AT LEAST.. be careful

~mOo
 
Cool, NetBench was what I was looking for. 🙂 Now to set up my own fleet of bots. 🙂

I tried 150,000 factoral and it was neat. Seems Calculator only uses 50% of each CPU when you are running a dualie. Fired up two copies and off she went. Now to try large #s.

Thanks

Windogg
 
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