Stress testing an application?

[Robert Hooker]

I have a fiarly high powered machine for development. This is a bit of curse
at times though, since I am sometimes not exposed to the bottlenecks for
performance that a lower spec machine might be exposed too.

My question: Is there a way I can tell the .NET to only ever use half of my
available ram - and to somehow turn off a chunk of my L1/L2 cpu caches?

Rob

[Marinus Holkema]

RE: Stress testing an application?

Maybe you could install Virtual Machine. There you create a testmachine and
specify how many memory you will use.

Marinus Holkema

"Robert Hooker" wrote:
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> I have a fiarly high powered machine for development. This is a bit of curse
> at times though, since I am sometimes not exposed to the bottlenecks for
> performance that a lower spec machine might be exposed too.
>
> My question: Is there a way I can tell the .NET to only ever use half of my
> available ram - and to somehow turn off a chunk of my L1/L2 cpu caches?
>
> Rob
>
>
>[/color]

[Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP]

RE: Stress testing an application?

I would not consider this "stress" testing, per se. Virtual Machines (Virtual
PC or VMWare) are great environments to test an app on a machine with lower
RAM, but you will not be able to adjust CPU variables without a really smart
emulator (AFAIK, neither of these products can do this - not as familiar with
VMWare).

I would consider getting a baseline machine, as an older machine should be
cheap, and installing your program on it. That would give you the best perf
benchmark.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"Robert Hooker" wrote:
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> I have a fiarly high powered machine for development. This is a bit of curse
> at times though, since I am sometimes not exposed to the bottlenecks for
> performance that a lower spec machine might be exposed too.
>
> My question: Is there a way I can tell the .NET to only ever use half of my
> available ram - and to somehow turn off a chunk of my L1/L2 cpu caches?
>
> Rob
>
>
>[/color]