From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 03:02:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD6416A400 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 03:02:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE8C43D53 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 03:02:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 15514 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2006 13:02:35 +1000 Received: from 210-84-32-140.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.32.140) by trilaxy.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Apr 2006 13:02:34 +1000 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:02:31 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Wil Hatfield" Message-ID: <20060401140231.7881966f@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20060401121712.7498e560@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.16; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:02:36 -0000 On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:28:09 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" wrote: > > fair enough, but you should be able to use some of the performance > > testing tools to hammer the server before pushing it live. > > Suggestions for tools that REALLY hammer? if it's going to be a webserver, use ab (apache's benchmark tool) to simulate high traffic. at the same time, you could run other tools on the server itself (bonny (sp?) from memory, etc). building the kernel (-j[num_cpuX2) ) seems like a nice way to add some load to the box... do a search in /usr/ports/sysutils for benchmarking utils. good luck B