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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!vixie!efficacy!vixie From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Want to stress test a BSD system (and sparc 4.4 installation notes) Date: 10 Sep 93 02:19:24 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 37 Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Sep10021924@gw.home.vix.com> References: <CD3uss.2Fz@news2.cis.umn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com In-reply-to: m4@maroon.tc.umn.edu's message of Thu, 9 Sep 1993 21:01:42 GMT >I am looking for scripts/stuff/programs that especially stress test a BSD >Unix system. For example test: > a) all system calls giving typical bad parameters, etc, > b) by stress the various file systems types, > c) executing all possible instructions and fault conditions. May I suggest the following item from the comp.sources.unix archives? === Subject: v25i003: crashme V1.8 - stress-test your U**X kernel Newsgroups: comp.sources.unix Approved: vixie@pa.dec.com Submitted-by: George J Carrette <gjc@mitech.com> Posting-number: Volume 25, Issue 3 Archive-name: crashme [ I added "all", "clean", and "install" targets to the Makefile. --mod ] Crashme is a very simple program that tests the operating environment's robustness by invoking random data as if it were a procedure. The standard signals are caught and handled with a setjmp back to a loop which will try again to produce a fault by executing random data. [... note that] to really test a significant portion of an instruction set of a machine you have to let a test like this run for weeks on end. It was really quite suprising that so many machines crashed after only a few seconds. #! /bin/sh [...] === -- Paul Vixie Redwood City, CA <paul@vix.com> decwrl!vixie!paul