Re: CPU Load generator for Windows?

I'm not sure what you're shooting for.

Writing a perl script that will use 100% of 1 cpu is pretty simple:

perl -e'while(1) {$x++}'
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pretty well does the job.

If you also need to exercise memory and paging, you could have something like:

perl -e'$x=" " x 1024 x 1024 x 256; while(1) { $x=~s/ /./g; $x=~s/./ /
+g;}'
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I haven't tested that last one, but I'll bet it'll be nicely anti-social :)

Are you shooting for something more precise, like 30% cpu load? That would be much harder to fine-tune...

Mike

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Re^2: CPU Load generator for Windows? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 22, 2007 at 15:36 UTC
Mike, Have you ever looked at (tye)Re: one-liner hogs? Fun! Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^3: CPU Load generator for Windows? by RMGir (Prior) on Jun 22, 2007 at 18:15 UTC
Limbic~Region, No, I hadn't. But I'm glad you pointed me to them, they're quite lovely! Of course, if some poor sap runs Procs as root, or on a system without process limits, his day's going to be ruined... :) Mike	[reply]
Re^2: CPU Load generator for Windows? by ww (Archbishop) on Jun 22, 2007 at 17:14 UTC
Since we're talking Windows here, the OP needs to use double quotes in the first case, and to reverse single-for-double and vice-versa in the second... `perl -e "while(1) {$x++}"` `perl -e "$x='' x 1024 x 1024 x 256; while(1) { $x=~s/ /./g; $x=~s/./ /g;}"` Interestingly, at least to me, in the second case I saw the handle count rise rapidly (well, over the course of a few tens of seconds), with "Available" physical memory actually increasing (mostly, there were a few small dips). That seems counterintutitive.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: CPU Load generator for Windows? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 22, 2007 at 18:08 UTC
If the intent is to create a large string, `'' x 1024 x 1024 x 256` isn't working: `C:\test>perl -wle "$x='' x 1024 x 1024 x 256; print length( $x )" 0` [download] A null string isn't the same a string containing a null. And 0 * anything is 0. Try `C:\test>perl -wle "$x = chr(0) x 1024 x 1024 x 256; print length( $x ) +" 268435456` [download] Personally, I find even that a little dubious in that, due to precedence, it creates the final string in 3 stages rather than 1. I think that `C:\test>perl -wle "$x = chr(0) x (1024* 1024 * 256); print length( $x +);<>" 268435456` [download] is 'better', though it has little effect on the outcome. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply] [d/l] [select]