[CentOS-mirror] Good stress tester...

Sun Feb 8 12:13:10 UTC 2009
lucian at chml.ro <lucian at chml.ro>

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
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> kate at oc3networks.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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...
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