On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > just connecting and throwing /dev/urandom on it until xfs closed the > connection or crashed. Once it was running without problems for more than > 3 days I gave up.
Brilliant! > The only problem is that crashes cannot be exactly reproduced, but if why not? the random data can be sent both to the x/xfs server and to a file. man tee. there might still be timing differences, of course... Other people have done similar things -- it seems to be almost unused but very useful (and easy!): http://pages.prodigy.net/dave_christian/gwu/cs256/10_Random%20Testing.ppt http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:FI6soE4R8qUC:pages.prodigy.net/dave_christian/gwu/cs256/10_Random%2520Testing.ppt+crash+testing+random+unix&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 (same in HTML format) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smethegj/fuzz-2001.pdf http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/forrester.html http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/koopman97comparing.html "Comparing Operating Systems Using Robustness Benchmarks" -Peter _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
