Umm, not really a load test, but a good "visual" of system loads, disk hits, etc. can be found using gkrellm or gkrellm2. It's been a while since I've used it but seemed fairly good overall. Of course, you could do a real load test by setting up a heavy duty machine as your terminal server.... http://www.ltsp.org I'm currently trying to figure out a way to do that for me at home. On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:26:02 -0500 "Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS)" <Pradeep.Sadanapalli at med.ge.com> wrote: > Thank you for all your responses. As we are migrating from Windows > Workstations > to Linux Workstations, many times I am facing the question "How > reliable and stable is Linux GUI or Linux?" > That is the reason I am looking for a Load test of the whole system, > kernel as well as GUI. > I am wondering if there is a benchmarking tool for this? I appreciate > if anyone points me in this direction...!! > Please correct me if my idea is totally wrong... > > Pradeep > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Phillips [mailto:david at acz.org] > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:50 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] load testing or system testing > > > Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) writes: > > Can anyone suggest me how to go about > > Load-Testing of Linux System in whole, Load-Testing of Kernel, Load > > Testing of GUI(KDE&GNOME) ...I mean Performance testing to be > > specific....? > > Since these are workstations, you're going about it the wrong way. > Use one > for your daily work. Does it do what you need it to do? Does it > perform > adequately? Since that's really what you want to know, that's what > you should be testing. Doing random benchmarks of unrelated stuff > isn't going > to be very useful. > > -- > David Phillips <david at acz.org> > http://david.acz.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list