On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:01 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Good morning: > > Let's say I've got two Dell 1800 servers and each one of these servers > has dual gigabit Ethernet connections. The first connection on each > server is connected to the corporate network at 100MB. The second > connection is a cross-over between the two machines running at 1GB. One > machine is running Fedora Core 3 and the other is running Redhat > Enterprise Linux 3. > > I need to stress test and performance test this configuration by > continuously moving large files back and forth under various processor > loads for a given length of time and be able to show the results when > completed. > > What are the best practices for the situation? Is there open source > software out there to accomplish this or do I need to write something? > I can think of a couple of shell script configurations to do this but > I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. > > Thanks, > > -brian > > Brian D. McGrew ( brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ) > --- > > Those of you who think you know it all, > Really annoy those of us who do. > > Brian, You might take a look at ttcp. It's probably already on the FC3 machine. Bob...
