Re: Artificially starving a process for CPU/Disk/etc?

[Alan Cox]

> I've got a situation where I want to simulate a server process getting 
> starved for cpu/paging to death/etc. I realize I could renice the process(s)
> and then create artificial loading on the machine, but is there any way to 
> do this more effectively?

There are a couple of approaches. One is to use ptrace the other
just signals and keep stopping/starting the process. Neither will give 
accurate paging to death behaviour. To get that you would have to do some
simulated fault and pauses every new page access.

Alan