Re: [Announce] Linux Test Project

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:48:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:06:28PM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
> > 
> >  - What is needed immediately?  Building a test suite for the kernel is
> >    going to take time.  What tests or tools are most important?
> 
> Interesting would be a test suite stress that tests common system calls
> in parallel on multiple CPUs. I would guess that could catch a lot of 
> locking bugs introduced with the 2.4 SMP scaling work.
> 
> I think that would be very useful for a good 2.4 release.

tridge has a tool like this for testing samba.  it opens n pipes to m
servers and sends a random stream of smb commands to all of them.  it
then checks whether there are differences between the returned packets
from each of the servers.

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