Subject: ITP: stress -- A tool which imposes stress on a system Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-09-01 Severity: wishlist
* Package name : stress Version : 0.18.1 Upstream Author : Amos Waterland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ * License : GPL Description: A tool which imposes stress on a system `stress' is a tool which imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system. It is written in highly-portable ANSI C, and uses the GNU Autotools to compile on a great number of UNIX-like operating systems. `stress' is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy load.
