Platform Load Tests Suite (plt)












Platform Load Tests Suite

The plt package contains the Platform Load Tests Suite that exercises a computer system under a heavy load. The suite is executed using plt(1Mcert), an interactive shell script.

Previous versions of this suite were called hcptest on OpenServer 5 and loadtests on UnixWare 7 systems.

For current information about the entire UnixWare/OpenServer Hardware Development Kit (HDK) release, see the HDK Release Notes.

Note: Documentation references on this page link to the Product Documentation. They are also available on your local system when the baseMAN, HDKdoc, and HDKman packages are installed.

System requirements

This package has no dependencies. It can be installed and run on any OpenServer or UnixWare 7 system.

Installation

To install the package from:

downloaded files

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Download the package to an installation directory; for example, /tmp.
  3. Use the UnixWare 7 pkgadd(1M) or the OpenServer pkgadd(ADM) command to install it by entering:
    pkgadd  -d  /tmp/plt.pkg

media distribution

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Insert the CD-ROM in the drive
  3. On UnixWare 7, use the pkgadd(1M) command to install it by entering:
    pkgadd  -d  cdrom1  plt.pkg

  4. On OpenServer, use the pkgadd(ADM) command to install it by entering:
    pkgadd  -d  /dev/cd0  plt.pkg

Configuration

See the plt(1Mcert) manual page for detailed information about configuration and usage.

Known limitations

Note the following limitations for this release:

  • The test suites automatically run the pltanalyze command when they complete to produce a summary report. Spurious failures may be reported if some tests have not yet written their final results to the log. Rerun pltanalyze manually after the test run finishes if the initial run reports failures.

For more information

See also Driver testing and debugging.