Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Artificially starving a process for CPU/Disk/etc? | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:51:59 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I've got a situation where I want to simulate a server process getting > starved for cpu/paging to death/etc. I realize I could renice the process(s) > and then create artificial loading on the machine, but is there any way to > do this more effectively?
There are a couple of approaches. One is to use ptrace the other just signals and keep stopping/starting the process. Neither will give accurate paging to death behaviour. To get that you would have to do some simulated fault and pauses every new page access.
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