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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