Re: Are there kernel testing suites out there? We need them.

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:25:45 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Miles Lane wrote:

> One of the things Micro$oft does is stress test Windows NT after
> every build.

Looking at the quality of Windows NT should be enough to establish
the usefulness of such a test...

Stresstesting a Linux kernel on a known-good piece of hardware
will only show up the most obvious bugs and not the typical
race conditions and marginal-hardware cases that bother us most.

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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