system excercising/burn-in tests?

[Kevin D. Clark]

Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> writes:

> Does anyone here have any experience with creating system burn-in
> suites?  

One idea that comes to mind is this:

(while /bin/true ; do sync ; sleep 3 ; done) &
cd /usr/src/linux
while /bin/true ; do make clean && make -j 4 all modules ; done

You get the idea.

--kevin

PS  For the truly paranoid, turn off hardware write caching on your
    hard drives.

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