system excercising/burn-in tests?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Thu Aug 25 12:11:01 EDT 2005


On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:24, Paul Lussier wrote:

>> 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.

So set the object file target to a directory on a USB-attached disk. :)

-Bill

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