Deciding Test Mode

Select the Test Mode depending upon the testing requirement. Test Mode is located at the top left corner of the Test Group table. You can select one of the 3 test modes from the drop down menu.

1. Online Stress

2. System Exerciser

3. Component Stress

Each of the modes support two levels of testing, low and high. These two levels of testing determine the degree of intensity of the test in terms of the resource usage and level of stress. The amount of memory in a system is an important factor in setting the low or high test levels. If the system has a small memory configuration, the default stress level is set to low in each of the modes. A larger memory configuration results in a default stress level that is set to high.

Oracle VTS considers a system to be a small memory configuration if it has less than or equal to 2 GB of memory for an x86 system and less than or equal to 4 GB of memory for a SPARC system. If the unit under test has less than 2 GB of memory for x86 systems, and less than 4 GB of memory for SPARC systems, you should select the low level.

By default the Test Mode is set to System Exerciser mode.