On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:03, Mary Edie Meredith wrote: > > I don't think we need more PASS/FAIL checks in the scripts. > > I think we need to add different background workloads > to try to trigger a problem that we didn't see with an > idle system as the background. > > One of the background loads needs to consist of several threaded applications running concurrently. Threads really mess up the scheduler and CPU usage. Java programs and just plain C programs that are threaded will make good background loads.