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Machine burn-in script
#!/bin/bash
#
# memtest
#
# A general purpose memory tester script, with options for enabling extra
# simultaneous tests in an attempt to test the capacity of the power supply
# in the machine. You can find the original source of this script and
# additional documentation on its usage by visiting my work web page at
# http://people.redhat.com/~dledford/
#
# Author: Doug Ledford <[email protected]> + contributors
#
# (C) Copyright 2000-2002,2008 Doug Ledford; Red Hat, Inc.
# This shell script is released under the terms of the GNU General
# Public License Version 3, June 2007. If you do not have a copy
# of the GNU General Public License Version 3, then one may be
# retrieved from http://people.redhat.com/~dledford/gpl.txt
#
# Here we set the defaults for this script. You can edit these to
# make permanent changes, or you can pass in command line arguments to
# make temporary changes
TEST_DIR=/tmp
SOURCE_FILE=linux.tar.bz2
NR_PASSES=20
HELP=
PARALLEL=no
EXTRACT=yes
usage ()
{
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [options]"
echo "Options:"
echo " -u Display this usage info"
echo " -h Give full help description of each option"
echo " -t <test_directory>"
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " The directory where we will unpack the tarballs and run"
echo " the diff comparisons. Ideally, this will hit all local"
echo " disks by being part of a software raid array (if there"
echo " is more than one local disk anyway). It can also be on"
echo " a network file server if you have both a very fast disk"
echo " array on the server, and a very fast network inter-"
echo " connect between the server and your machine (10GBit/s"
echo " or faster is needed in order to out run a single modern"
echo " SATA hard drive that's local)."
fi
echo " Default: /tmp"
echo " -s <source_file>"
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " The file we will decompress and untar to create the"
echo " file trees we intend to compare against each other. I"
echo " recommend that this file be a tar.bz2 file and that you"
echo " have the parallel bzip2 utility (pbzip2) installed on"
echo " your machine. This at least allows the bzip2 unzip"
echo " operation to use all CPUs when not running the test in"
echo " parallel mode. This file is expected to be in the test"
echo " directory. You can use a relative path from the test"
echo " directory in case it is located somewhere else."
fi
echo " Default: linux.tar.bz2"
echo " -x Toggle whether or not we extract the contents of the"
echo " tarball, or just decompress it."
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " In the event that extracting lots of small files slows"
echo " your disk subsystem down too much and our overall write"
echo " speed falls too low, it won't make an effective test of"
echo " the disk DMA operations against CPU memory operations."
echo " If your write speeds aren't high enough, try disabling"
echo " extraction and see if that speeds things up."
fi
echo " Default: extract the contents"
echo " -n <number_of_passes>"
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " How many times we will run the test before we consider"
echo " it complete. It's possible to pass most of the time"
echo " and only fail once in a while, so we run the whole"
echo " thing multiple times by default."
fi
echo " Default: 20"
echo " -m <megs_per_copy>"
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " How many megabytes does the uncompressed tarball use on"
echo " the filesystem. We assume a roughly 75% compression"
echo " ratio in the compressed tarball if the compression used"
echo " is gzip, and 80% if the compression is bzip2. So we"
echo " take 4 or 5 times the size of the file depending on the"
echo " file extension."
fi
echo " Default: 4 * sizeof source .gz files,"
echo " 5 * sizeof source .bz2 files"
echo " -c <number_of_copies>"
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " We normally just calculate how many copies of the"
echo " tarball to extract in order to be roughly 1.5 times"
echo " physical memory size, but you can pass in a number if"
echo " this doesn't work for some reason."
fi
echo " Default: physical ram size * 1.5 / megs_per_copy"
echo " -p Toggles whether or not we will extract and diff all the"
echo " source trees in parallel or serial."
if [ -n "$HELP" ]; then
echo " Most linux filesystems will be much faster when running"
echo " tests serially. It tends to bog the drives down when"
echo " the heads have to seek back and forth a lot to satisfy"
echo " multiple readers/writers acting simultaneously. But,"
echo " parallel operations will tend to create much higher"
echo " memory pressure and can be useful testing the virtual"
echo " memory subsystem, so it's available as an option here."
fi
echo " Default: serial"
echo " -i Just parse the arguments and say what figures we came"
echo " up with and then exit."
exit 1
}
trap_handler()
{
echo " test aborted by interrupt."
# Most of the jobs exit themselves if we just wait a second
sleep 1
# Kill any children that might be in the background, as well as any
# currently running foreground apps, then cleanup, then exit
for job in `jobs -p`; do
kill -9 $job >/dev/null 2>&1
while [ -n "`ps --no-heading $job`" ]; do sleep .2s; done
done
echo -n "Waiting for all pipelines to exit..."
wait
echo "done."
echo -n "Cleaning up work directory..."
rm -fr memtest-work
echo "done."
exit 1
}
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
case "$1" in
-u)
USAGE=1
shift
;;
-h)
HELP=1
shift
;;
-t)
TEST_DIR="$2"
shift 2
;;
-s)
SOURCE_FILE="$2"
shift 2
;;
-x)
[ $EXTRACT = yes ] && EXTRACT=no || EXTRACT=yes
shift
;;
-n)
NR_PASSES="$2"
shift 2
;;
-m)
MEGS_PER_COPY="$2"
shift 2
;;
-c)
NR_COPIES="$2"
shift 2
;;
-p)
[ $PARALLEL = yes ] && PARALLEL=no || PARALLEL=yes
shift
;;
-i)
JUST_INFO=1
shift
;;
*)
echo "Unknown option $1"
usage
esac
done
[ -n "$USAGE" ] && usage
if [ ! -f "$TEST_DIR/$SOURCE_FILE" ]; then
echo "Missing source file $TEST_DIR/$SOURCE_FILE"
usage
fi
BZIP2=`file -b "$TEST_DIR/$SOURCE_FILE" | grep bzip2`
if [ -n "$BZIP2" ]; then
COMPRESS_FLAG=j
COMPRESS_RATIO=5
COMPRESS_PROG=`which pbzip2 2>/dev/null`
[ -z "$COMPRESS_PROG" ] && COMPRESS_PROG=`which bzip2 2>/dev/null`
else
COMPRESS_FLAG=z
COMPRESS_RATIO=4
COMPRESS_PROG=`which gzip 2>/dev/null`
fi
# Guess how many megs the unpacked archive is.
if [ -z "$MEGS_PER_COPY" ]; then
MEGS_PER_COPY=$(ls -l --block-size=1048576 "$TEST_DIR/$SOURCE_FILE" | awk -v compress_ratio=$COMPRESS_RATIO '{print $5 * compress_ratio}')
fi
# How many trees do we have to unpack in order to make our trees be larger
# than physical RAM? We shoot for 1.5 times physical RAM size just to be
# sure we unpack plenty and to compensate in case our estimate of unpacked
# size is inaccurate.
if [ -z "$NR_COPIES" ]; then
NR_COPIES=$(free -m | awk -v megs_per_copy=$MEGS_PER_COPY '/^Mem:.*/ {print int($2*1.5/megs_per_copy + ($2%megs_per_copy >= (megs_per_copy/2)))}')
fi
echo "TEST_DIR: $TEST_DIR"
echo "SOURCE_FILE: $SOURCE_FILE"
echo "NR_PASSES: $NR_PASSES"
echo "MEGS_PER_COPY: $MEGS_PER_COPY"
echo "NR_COPIES: $NR_COPIES"
echo "PARALLEL: $PARALLEL"
echo "COMPRESS_RATIO: $COMPRESS_RATIO"
echo "COMPRESS_FLAG: $COMPRESS_FLAG"
echo "COMPRESS_PROG: $COMPRESS_PROG"
echo "EXTRACT: $EXTRACT"
echo
if [ -n "$JUST_INFO" ]; then
exit
fi
# OK, options parsed and sanity tests passed, here starts the actual work
cd $TEST_DIR
# Set our trap handler
trap 'trap_handler' 2 9 15
# Remove any possible left over directories from a cancelled previous run
rm -fr memtest-work
# Unpack the one copy of the source tree that we will be comparing against
echo -n "Creating comparison source..."
if [ $EXTRACT = yes ]; then
mkdir -p memtest-work/original
$COMPRESS_PROG -dc $SOURCE_FILE 2>/dev/null | tar -xf - -C memtest-work/original >/dev/null 2>&1 &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
else
mkdir -p memtest-work
$COMPRESS_PROG -dc $SOURCE_FILE > memtest-work/original 2>/dev/null &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
fi
echo "done."
i=1
while [ "$i" -le "$NR_PASSES" ]; do
echo -n "Starting test pass #$i: "
j=0
echo -n "unpacking"
while [ "$j" -lt "$NR_COPIES" ]; do
if [ $PARALLEL = yes ]; then
if [ $EXTRACT = yes ]; then
mkdir -p memtest-work/$j
$COMPRESS_PROG -dc $SOURCE_FILE 2>/dev/null | tar -xf - -C memtest-work/$j >/dev/null 2>&1 &
else
$COMPRESS_PROG -dc $SOURCE_FILE > memtest-work/$j 2>/dev/null &
fi
else
if [ $EXTRACT = yes ]; then
mkdir -p memtest-work/$j
$COMPRESS_PROG -dc $SOURCE_FILE 2>/dev/null | tar -xf - -C memtest-work/$j >/dev/null 2>&1 &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
else
$COMPRESS_PROG -dc $SOURCE_FILE > memtest-work/$j 2>/dev/null &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
fi
fi
j=$[ $j + 1 ]
done
if [ $PARALLEL = yes ]; then
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
fi
j=0
echo -n ", comparing"
while [ "$j" -lt "$NR_COPIES" ]; do
if [ $PARALLEL = yes ]; then
if [ $EXTRACT = yes ]; then
diff -uprN memtest-work/original memtest-work/$j &
else
cmp memtest-work/original memtest-work/$j &
fi
else
if [ $EXTRACT = yes ]; then
diff -uprN memtest-work/original memtest-work/$j &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
else
cmp memtest-work/original memtest-work/$j &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
fi
fi
j=$[ $j + 1 ]
done
if [ $PARALLEL = yes ]; then
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
fi
j=0
echo -n ", removing"
while [ "$j" -lt "$NR_COPIES" ]; do
rm -fr memtest-work/$j &
wait
if [ $? -gt 128 ]; then
exit 1
fi
j=$[ $j + 1 ]
done
echo ", done."
i=$[ $i + 1 ]
done
# Clean up after ourselves
rm -fr memtest-work
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