plug Unusual request.

[Leon Brooks]

Niall Young wrote:
> > So what is the best way to totally stress the machine out :)

> Compile kernels :-)

One every few minutes on a P2/300. Yawn.

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> while true; do
>         make zImage
> done

Do that in a xterm windows, and at the same time, in another window...

# a little disk thrashing, a little compute
while true; do
	find / | grep /*e*/ >/dev/null &
	sleep 30
done

...while browsing with NetScape 4.05. This will keep 16M occupied fairly
well, and might even load down a 32MB machine, depending on how long the
find takes. If you want to gobble some CPU as well as keep the I/O busy,
grab something like POVRay and get a few instances of that endlessly
re-tracing images.

Or hand the machine to Matt and let him bury it in digital calamari. (-: