[NCLUG] Testing memory pressure

[James DeWitt]

I haven't used these, but a quick search in the Ubuntu 10.10 repo turns up "stressapptest" and (Bob already mentioned) "stress" packages.  Also, "ltp" may have utilities for this.
-- 
JD

grant at amadensor.com wrote:

>I want to test how an application reacts to being starved for
>resources.
>
>I have some pretty good ideas about how to create an artificial I/O
>load
>and a CPU load.   Does anyone have a good idea for how to (from
>something
>quick like shell or PERL) use a lot of memory so that things start to
>swap
>out?
>
>
>I am trying to get real numbers about how different database plans
>(hash,
>loops, scans) react to different resource limitations.  I have seen it
>over the years on different hardware, but I want real numbers for he
>same
>hardware when you have to share.
>
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