> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Hein Roehrig wrote: > > Before going production with a new server I would like to do some stress > > testing esp wrt locking problems. A quick search of the archives and at > > Google shows that people have been looking for scripts etc. but there is > > no standard open-source test/stress suite and nobody so far posted their > > scripts. > > Always wise. :) Having just put a new box into production we did 'end > to end' delivery tests using the postfix smtp-source tool. The tool > allows you to setup various parms, including message size, threads, > and delays. > > We did simple tests of delivering different message sizes, delays and > destinations concurently. It might make for a nice base to a set of > shell scripts you write up. >
I agree. It would also be nice run the scripts against other servers to produce benchmarks. Hm.. I wonder which filesystem would produce the best results? ;)
