[CentOS] how can I stress a server?

Tue Nov 18 08:52:15 UTC 2008
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

Rudi Ahlers schrieb:
> 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?
>
>
>   



http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

(Yeah, it's MSFT - but I heard good things about it - memtest is not
everything....)

I'm not sure if 8 GB and non-ECC (and non-buffered!) actually works that
well....


Rainer