[p4] Automated testing of a new installation

[Michael McTernan]

Hi,

> Are you looking for things that (specifically thrash p4d)

Yes - specifically thrashing p4d.  Ideally collecting some performance data
for comparison against the old system, although that maybe a lot to ask.

> (that just eat up CPU on linux) 

while(1) fork();  !!!

> or (stress the file system on Linux)?

Iozone is quite a good filesystem benchmark that we've tried.

Kind Regards,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Salzman [mailto:noah at ncircle.com]
> Sent: 06 June 2006 18:08
> To: Michael McTernan
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Automated testing of a new installation
> 
> 
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Michael McTernan wrote:
> 
> > We are planning a move from Win2k to Linux, and would like to know
> > if anyone
> > has tools to test our new platform and installation.  The sort of
> > thing we
> > would like is something to thrash the server and put it under heavy
> > load so
> > that we know it will perform well before rolling it out into the
> > production
> > environment.
> >
> > Anyone got any good scripts or tools to do this that they are
> > willing to
> > share?
> 
> 
> Are you looking for things that (specifically thrash p4d) or things
> (that just eat up CPU on linux) or (stress the file system on Linux)?
> 
> 
>