On 02/08/2009 03:40 AM, Kate Gerry wrote: > The reason I ask is I'm unsure if the machine is having issues and I'd > like to see if it's a machine issue or what. Before we put machines in production we stress them for some time (from a couple of hours to a day) with this tool: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ It doesn't do network, but it's a good test for the rest. > > Also, I sure hope there aren't any issues... It's a RAID5 on a gigabit > uplink. > > -- > Kate Gerry > OC3 Networks& Web Solutions > 530 W 6th Street #901 > Los Angeles, CA 90014 > kate at oc3networks.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of > mirror-maintainer at mirror.averse.net > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 15:19 > To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. > Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Good stress tester... > > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Kate Gerry wrote: > >> I've been setting up a mirror and I would like to know if anybody has >> any good ideas on how to stress test it without being live? >> >> I'd like to be able to simulate a lot of requests from either one or >> multiple IPs (I know I'd have to run it on more than one system) >> >> Please let me know as I'm not sure if it's working correctly as of > yet! > > IMO, real world traffic for static files (ie, normal mirror servers) are > > unlikely to stress mirrors much. The bottleneck is likely to be > available > bandwidth, I/O, or possibly RAM/available threads/file descriptors to > serve requests. > > Unless you're just trying to see at what the limit really is at which > your > server will fail... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >