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Re: CPU load testing



On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 05:25:27PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
| Can anyone recommend a good package or a good way to CPU load test my debian
| box?

$ python
>>> while 1 : pass
...


(type the non-prompts)  Basically just make an infinite loop that does
nothing in any programming language.  Run the program.  It will spend
lots of CPU cycles doing nothing :-).

| My box keeps freezing up, it seems to always happen when the network
| card is busy (copying files mainly). But it could be just the CPU
| load which is causing it, which is why I want to take the net card
| down and try a high CPU load for a while....

Try memtest86 too.

HTH,
-D

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