Re: [squid-users] Need to replace squid with more appropriat diagnositc program

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, josh wrote:

> A while back I had problems with running squid on a Cobalt RaQ
> XTR. Then I realized it had to do with how swap was triggered. Since
> squid actually has a setting that tells squid how much ram to swallow
> on startup it is a very good basic tester of available ram and swap funtion.

Not really...

> I have been using squid like this but it is not perfect. For instance
> the reports and log files are not those of a diagnostic program. Can
> someone suggest a better alternative for testing ram and disk swapping.

RAM Test: memtest86 (on X86 type hardware only)

Swap test: the attached silly program could be useful..

General system health: Repeated Linux kernel compiles, in parallell to
stress VM system even more..

Regards
Henrik