system excercising/burn-in tests?

[Tom Buskey]

The Linux Benchmarking Project (?) had some stuff.

memtest86 hammers the ram (I think it's a boot option on a fedora CD)

There is a dd like app from a former DEC guy that hammers anything
that looks like a disk.  I used it at RAIDcore quite a bit and don't
have the bookmark saved....

On 8/17/05, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone here have any experience with creating system burn-in
> suites?  Our vendor does a very rudimentary burn it (if it doesn't
> burst into flames on it's own while sitting in the 100-degree+
> warehouse on a shelf, it must be okay), and is puts the onus on it's
> customers to provide them with a burn-in test to be run (all for
> small, per-system fee, I'm sure :)
> 
> So, now I'm looking to come up with a burn-in suite.  My initial
> thoughts were starting with a knoppix-like CD and hacking that to run
> various utilities, however, I'm not even sure what utilities would be
> good to run.
> 
> We basically want to stress-test all components and busses.
> Especially the drives.  We're not doing performance testing at this
> stage, however...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
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