High, On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > Dear People, > > This is a offtopic question, but is related to Linux in that I need to do > something in Windows I can easily do in Linux, and I wondered if someone > could help me. > > I'm about to purchase a machine to install Debian on, but the people I'm > getting it from only support Windows. I want to put the hardware under > some load, but there doesn't seem to be any canonical way to do this in > Windows. If they know Linux stuff I would just ask them to recompile the > kernel a bunch of times. But this is probably not an option here. > > A friend suggested that I simply use a simple C program that will simply > write to and from the hard disk very fast, and then keep it running on the > machine. I wouldn't know how to write something like this off the top of > my head. Does anyone have anything like this to hand or have other > suggestions? > Why don't you use a benchmark? Sophisticated benchmarks do an awfull lot of testing and the machine can be busy for days if you want to put it to the limited. I am not sure if there are free versions of this benchmarks, but it is worth looking. Greetz, Sebastiaan
