benchmarks/forkbomb 1.4_2 DragonFly

System stress testing tool

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: PD
Categories: benchmarks
Package size: 6.4 KiB, 11.3 KiB installed

Description

forkbomb is tool for stress testing. It can create many processes using fork(), bring up some zombies, allocate memory using realloc() and accesses this memory. It has different switches for fine-tuning operation. While classic fork() bomb is good only for fun and QA release testing, running multiple memory-eaters can be useful for determining maximum memory which can be given to servers (bind or squid) without taking machine down. You can test different operation systems with this tool and see how they are handling the load.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

benchmarks/forkbomb

1.4_2

FreeBSD

benchmarks/forkbomb

1.4_2

NetBSD

benchmarks/forkbomb

1.4

HardenedBSD

benchmarks/forkbomb

1.4_2

GhostBSD

benchmarks/forkbomb

1.4_2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install forkbomb

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/benchmarks/forkbomb && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The forkbomb port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing