[TriLUG] Burn-in Software

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 13:33:39 EST 2009


Didn't the "Ultimate Boot CD" have burn-in tools?

hmmmmm....   have to Google that later today.




On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Maxwell Spangler <
maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:40 -0500, James Jones wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have assembled a new server for my computer room. I would like to do
> > a 24-36 hour burn-in of the unit ( running centos 5.4 32bit ) using
> > some soft of "exercising" software.
> >
> > Are there any open source packages available for such a task?
>
> memtest86 is one of the most low-level tests you can use to test the
> core hardware (CPU, memory, bridge chips, etc.)  It doesn't test
> graphics, disk, peripherals, drivers, etc.
>
> memtest86 should be included on most Linux boot disks as a boot up
> option -- it boots instead of Linux, does its job for as long as you
> like, and the you reboot into Linux for Linux-level testing.
>
> VA Linux systems used to produce an open source hardware tester called
> Cerberous or something but that was 10+ years ago?
>
> I don't know of anything else, but I'm interested, too..
>
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