[COMP] Re: stresstesting sun/solaris

> I've got a sun/solaris at work that needs to be tested for bad
> cpu/memory/motherboard. What is the best way to do this?
> I was thinking of doing a lot of tasks at the same time (256 meg ram to
> test...). In linux it would be easy: compiling three kernels and adding
> seti@home with a not-so-nice priority, but for solaris? Are there any
> programs that do rubbish (it's a very simple sun, just a print server
> for one specific printer) yet take up a lot of cpu and memory, and take
> a long time (so as to really stress-test it)

Same things apply, I guess-- you could download some huge source that'll 
work on Solaris (mozilla?), and compile it a few times.  Do a "find / 
-name "*"" at the same time. =)  

John


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