stressapptest/git/README.md

1 # stressapptest  chapter
2 Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest, its unix name) is a memory interface test.
5   (Exported from code.google.com/p/stressapptest)
7 Discussion group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/stressapptest-discuss
14 ./stressapptest -s 20 -M 256 -m 8 -W    # Test 256MB, running 8 "warm copy" threads. Exit after 20 …
15 ./stressapptest --help                  # list the available arguments.
32 ./stressapptest -s 20 -M 256 -m 8 -C 8 -W # Allocate 256MB of memory and run 8 "warm copy" threads,…
33 ./stressapptest -f /tmp/file1 -f /tmp/file2 # Run 2 file IO threads, and autodetect memory size and…
39 stressapptest is often available on linux and can be installed as a distro package:
41 sudo apt-get install stressapptest
43 sudo yum install stressapptest
44 sudo zypper install stressapptest
48 git clone https://github.com/stressapptest/stressapptest.git
49 cd stressapptest
59 Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest) tries to maximize randomized traffic to memory from p…
61 stressapptest may be used for various purposes:
75 stressapptest is a userspace test, primarily composed of threads doing memory copies and directIO d…
98 Someone running stressapptest on a live system could cause other applications to become extremely s…
103 stressapptest can output a logfile of miscompares detected during its execution. stressapptest cann…