From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 26 11:53:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4695615333 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA24029; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199908261851.LAA24029@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mark Murray Cc: Brian McGovern , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for good QA tests... References: <199908261838.UAA03696@gratis.grondar.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> Still too small a scope. How about "A regression test to make sure :> that the OS is not broken before Jordan inflicts it on the world" ? : :Athough it does not actively hunt down bugs, a NFS mounted, :FreeBSD-routed build should stress enough of the system to disprove many :serious problems. : :Inflicting it on "standard idiots" to check for install problems is a :human-engineering aproach you could also take? Impossible to automate, :though. : :M :-- :Mark Murray :Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org This is what I usually do: * machine artificially limited to 32M of ram. * NFSv3 mounted /usr/src * NFS mounted /usr/obj or VN(swap-backed,softupdates-enabled) mounted /usr/obj or ccd'd /usr/obj depending on what I am testing * lots of swap space (either NFS-based or a real disk, depending) * make -j 12 buildworld Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message