Re: [K12OSN] Stress Test
Julius Szelagiewicz (julius@turtle.com)
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:22:14 -0500 (EST)
Daniel,
your way is a pretty good approximation. I am amazed you got that
far with 256MB. julius
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Daniel Bodanske wrote:
> I know this will bore just about everyone here, but I am so excited. I stress
> tested my K12 system for the first time today. My "server" is a 500MHz PII
> with 256Mb RAM and IDE. I haven't had any problems in my language center
> yet, but we aren't really open full tilt, either. I wanted to find out how
> far this machine would take us (we need a budget approval to change
> machines), and since I don't have our star multimedia language application
> working under RH yet, I had to simulate the load.
> If anyone has read this far, I'm looking for opinions on whether my method is
> valid. I logged in on the server in Gnome and ran top. I booted, logged in
> in Gnome and ram xmms on each workstation in turn. The MP3s were about 2-3
> seconds each sampled at 44k, randomly and continuously played in a loop. I
> set the screensavers to random as well. I got to about 14 workstations this
> way begore I noticed any problems, when the DHCP started not booting the
> clients sometimes or freezing on log-in. I eventually made it to 22
> workstations with a load average hovering around 25-27 and left it there for
> about 2 hours. I heard no problems with the audio, but the screensavers
> slowed quite a bit.
> Again, I'm not looking for anything truly scientific here, but does this seem
> like a reasonable test of whether this MM app is likely to work? Except for
> my headache after the whole thing, I was totally blown away by the
> performance of this little machine.
> Dan
>
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