[plug] thrashing hard disks

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 15:05, Ben Jensz wrote:
> I should probably clarify... they are U320 SCSI drives in a server (not
> currently in production, so it doesn't matter if there is data loss).

Hack your own...

e.g.

dd if=/dev/sdx bs=8k of=/dev/null &
dd if=/dev/sdy bs=8k of=/dev/null &

After "random delay"

dd if=/dev/sdx bs=32k of=/dev/null &
dd if=/dev/sdy bs=32k of=/dev/null &

After "random delay"

...

Much more fun with Bonnie++ running *as well*.

Never ever try this when there are users on the system unless you're
writing a chapter for the BOFH.

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