Re: Memory Consuming Application

Perhaps http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/contest/ might help?

from the web-page:

>This program is designed to test system responsiveness by running kernel
>compilation under a number of different load conditions. It is designed
>to compare different kernels, not different machines. It uses real
>workloads you'd expect to find for short periods in every day machines
>but sustains them for the duration of a kernel compile to increase the
>signal to noise ratio.

If you're testing a home-brewed kernel it should fit the bill.

cheers,
DS


On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Lei Yang wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wanna find an application to test a kernel hack that I am trying. This
> application must be extremely memory consuming and would require a lot
> of swapping and i/o access, especially swapping. I have an IBM A30
> thinkpad with 256MB RAM and Pentium III processor. This shouldn't be
> a very fast machine but when I tried with kernel compiling, still 68% of
> the memory is free:(
>
> Could anyone help? TIA!
>
> Lei
>
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