system excercising/burn-in tests?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu Aug 25 11:26:00 EDT 2005


clark_k at pannaway.com (Kevin D. Clark) writes:

> 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

This doesn't really test that much though, cpu, disk i/o, maybe some
memory, but completely misses things like USB bus testing, etc.

-- 

Seeya,
Paul



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