[CentOS] how can I stress a server?

Rudi Ahlers rudiahlers at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 07:36:24 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a server, with an Intel DG35EC motherboard, Q9300 CPU, 8GB
>>> Kingston DDRII RAM which can't take a lot of load. I have 4 XEN VPS's
>>> on there, which doesn't consume more than 4GBM RAM at this stage. Yet,
>>> the machine sky rockets at some times. I've moved the XEN VPS's to
>>> another server, with 4GM RAM, and it doesn't cause the same problems.
>>>
>>> So, apart from memtest86 how else can I stress test the server to find
>>> out what the problem is?
>>>
>>
>>
>> 4 instances of mprime (www.mersenne.org), running the torture test, each set
>> to affinity on a different CPU.
>>
>> and, next time get a real server board with ECC.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________


John, just cause the machines we use to serve web content to our
clients doesn't use the grade of equipment you prefer to use, and can
afford, doesn't mean equipment that other people use is inferior, or
worthless.

I have a problem with one of my machines, and have narrowed down that
it could either be the CPU, RAM or motherboard, but before I take it
back to the suppliers, I need to know what is wrong. They will switch
it on, and see that it works. But it's not taking the load that I
expect it could. In fact, it's not taking the same load as a machine
with a Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo & 4GB RAM. This server should be 2 - 4
times faster & handle 2 - 4 times the load of the E6750, yet it
doesn't and I need to know why. I don't appreciate being told that the
hardware I have if inferior.


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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers



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