system excercising/burn-in tests?

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

VA used to have a burn-in suite called Cerbeus (i think), that they used
to test their systems (when they were a hardware company). They had
released it on Sourceforge, I believe.

FYI,
Kenny

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:46 -0400, Paul Lussier 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,

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