Three Solaris Hogs for Testing

These commands are meant to be used for testing, or to learn the stat commands. I would not run these on a production box and I would recommend having another shell open to the same box to allow for quick kills.

To saturate CPU:
(CAUTION! This will lay a heavy load on your CPU!)

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while :; do :; done &
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To flood RAM and cause paging:
(CAUTION! This can render your machine unuseable...)

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mkfile 1g /tmp/fillfile &
find / -type f
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To saturate Disk IO:
(set off a few of these...)

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dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/null bs=102400 &
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