Stress test a linux-box

Run all three in 3 different consoles:

Harddisk trafic

dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1024M

Bus trafic
jail01:~# dbench 100 100
100 clients started
  94      63477  310.44 MB/sec
Throughput 304.644 MB/sec 10 procs

Random system activity
jail01:~# crashme +2000 666 100 1:00:00

Result:


jail01:~# uptime
 02:40:10 up 7 min,  7 users,  load average: 520.63, 179.30, 64.23


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