"stress" testing

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:14:06 -0600
"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad at shire.net> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> In reading one of the various performance threads recently in either
> 
> -questions or -current, I seem to recall someone mentioning a
> utility that can be used to do some sort of "stress" testing.  The
> reference was in a man page style  [ command(n) ] type reference in
> the thread.  I though I saved it but cannot find it.  Is there some
> sort of port or utility or command that can do general
> system/sub-system stress testing?
> 
> I don't have any specific needs or requirements.  The reference just
> 
> looked interesting and I wanted to look into the facility mentioned
> to see what it does and if it would be useful to me somehow to
> stress new systems etc.

You may find something of interest under the bench marking section of
the ports tree