At work we are in the middle of a server migration and we want to stress test the new server before starting to migrate our data.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for scripts that will put intense load on the processor and/or memory?
It is a linux server running on Red Hat 5 OS and Apache 2.2.1.
It doesn't have to push it to it's physical limits, it's just to use as a benchmark to compare to our old server so we can see how much of an improvement the new setup is over the current/old configuration.
Ideally it would be a shell or php script since php is what will be installed and what we develop in.