Bug#269512: ITP: stress -- A tool which imposes stress on a system

[Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>]

Subject: ITP: stress -- A tool which imposes stress on a system
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2004-09-01
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : stress
  Version         : 0.18.1
  Upstream Author : Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>
* URL             : http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/
* License         : GPL
  Description: A tool which imposes stress on a system
   `stress' is a tool which imposes a configurable amount of CPU,
   memory, I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system.
   It is written in highly-portable ANSI C, and uses the GNU Autotools
   to compile on a great number of UNIX-like operating systems.

   `stress' is not a benchmark.  It is a tool used by system
   administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by
   kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics,
   and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only
   or more frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy
   load.