Section #8. Linux Test Project
Linux Test Project (LTP), hosted at http://ltp.sourceforge.net/, is a suite consisting of approximately 3,000 tests designed to exercise different parts of the kernel. Most tests run without user intervention. Others, such as networking and storage media tests, need some manual configuration.
Download the source tar ball from the LTP home page, run make, and invoke the wrapper script runltp from the root of the source tree to start the tests. To capture the results in logfile in the results/ directory, do this:
bash> runltp –p –l logfile
Some errors generated by LTP are “expected.” The LTP website documents the list of expected errors for various kernel versions. Also in the website is an interesting analysis ...
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