@@ -10,16 +10,17 @@ case "$1" in else DDNUM=20 fi + ROOTBLOCKDEV=`df -P / | tail -n1 | cut -f1 -d" "` echo "Starting $DDNUM processes:" for i in `seq 1 $DDNUM`; do - THISPID=`dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null seek=$((RANDOM * 100)) & echo $!` + THISPID=`dd if=$ROOTBLOCKDEV of=/dev/null seek=$((RANDOM * 100)) & echo $!` DDPID=$DDPID:$THISPID echo " $i of $DDNUM... [$THISPID]" done echo "done." echo - echo "$DDNUM processes started. You can either let them run until you kill" - echo "them/they finish, or you may terminate them all now by typing 'DIE'" + echo "$DDNUM processes started. You can either let them run until they finish" + echo "or you may terminate them all now by typing 'DIE'" read -p "Terminate the processes? " if [ "$REPLY" == "DIE" ]; then echo -n "Terminating $DDNUM processes... " stresstest 20d7883cf1fac58e57e548b954c1b2b87bc5f08c Alex Malinovich amalinovich@engineyard.com http://github.com/demonbane/helpers/commit/d4ea6f61076ba91861cb39905b5ad21709da3a32 d4ea6f61076ba91861cb39905b5ad21709da3a32 2009-11-06T16:21:36-08:00 2009-11-06T16:21:36-08:00 Auto-detect root block device instead of assuming /dev/sda1 56bb0b12fcf58bacddf485bdc5b5590244504c0a Alex Malinovich amalinovich@engineyard.com