On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Julia Cartwright <julia@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 07:53:55AM +0200, Ran Shalit wrote: >> Hello, > > Hello Ran- > >> I have followed instruction for using cycletest in: >> https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Cyclictest >> >> It described command lines for different scenarios. >> usually one with load and the next without load. >> Yet, I see no difference between the load 100% and no-load commands. >> >> How can you simulate load with cycletest ? > > cyclictest itself doesn't do any loading, it's common to run it with > some other processes in the background which generate a simulated load. > > Keep in mind that the using a utility like the ones I've listed below is > only _simulating_ what a load _might_ be like in a real application. > The best thing to do is to actually test your application. > > - hackbench - scheduling load (nice because it's part of rt-tests) > - stress - load-generating swiss-army knife > - xfstests - disk / filesystem load > - 'make -j' in a kernel source tree > - iperf - network load > - glxgears - gfx load > > (those are the ones that come to mind, there are others I'm forgetting) > > Julia Hi Julia , Joakim , Kannan, Thank you very much for answering my question ! Regards, Ran -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
