[GRLUG] Net-top as server?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Good point.  Is there a standard load
> program that one could use to exercise
> the machine?  Make as many elements 
> of the CPU huff and puff as possible,
> and maybe get the hard drive(s) to do
> the same by reading and writing lots of
> small files?

I usually take a kill-o-watt reading by starting a large compile in a
full screen terminal [gnome-terminal] window set to use a proportional
font.  Not terribly scientific but doing roughly the same thing puts
everybody on an equal footing.

> Something where one could take along
> a copy of something like Knoppix and
> the program and give it whirl?

>