load testing suggestion

From: Reuben D. Budiardja (techlist_at_voyager.phys.utk.edu)
Date: 06/24/04

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    Hi all,
    I have a possible hardware problem with causes some stability problem. So far
    this stability problems (crashes and locks up) are triggered when I ran rsync
    for backup-ing remote machines on a ~30- 40 GB data.

    I am tring to determine if this problem only due to disk activity, which
    indicate disk related hardware problem, or something else, like CPU or
    motherboard.

    So I am trying to put this server under heavy load, to test it. Anyone have
    suggestion on how to do that? I've put things like seti @ home to run, but
    that program only eat a lot of CPU activity, and does not result in very
    heavy load (when you do "top" or "w"). The machine is a dual processor.

    Second question, where can I learn more about what the "load average" in top
    or w really mean? (man top, man w doesn't really help me, or am I looking at
    wrong place)

    Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

    PS: I've check for memory problem by running memtest86 on all tests, it's now
    about 80% on the last test which takes very very long, and no erros have
    showed up yet. So memory is probably not at fault, at least for now.

    RDB 

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Reuben D. Budiardja
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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