"stress" testing

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Oct 23, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote:

> 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
>

Thanks to all who replied in-list or off-list.

Thanks
Chad