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

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 04 Jul 1999 20:18:04 -0400

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

[...]

> Automatic regression tests very rarely help. Most of the bugs that
> get into a shipping kernel now are ones I can't reproduce even given a
> description let alone find randomly

But if the cost is negligible, even that "rarely" is worth it.

Perhaps a start would be to run Larry McVoy's lmbench? That way you'd see
if there are performance regressions too.

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