stress testing

[Russell Packer]

>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Hein Roehrig wrote:
> > Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress
> > testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at
> > Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is
> > no standard open-source test/stress suite and nobody so far posted their
> > scripts.
>
> Always wise. :) Having just put a new box into production we did 'end
> to end' delivery tests using the postfix smtp-source tool. The tool
> allows you to setup various parms, including message size, threads,
> and delays.
>
> We did simple tests of delivering different message sizes, delays and
> destinations concurently. It might make for a nice base to a set of
> shell scripts you write up.
>

I agree. It would also be nice run the scripts against other servers to
produce benchmarks. Hm.. I wonder which filesystem would produce the best
results? ;)