[TriLUG] Burn-in Software (James Jones)

[James Jones]

Thanks.

I will check it out.

Now to prepare for the Trilug social and beagle board presentation --
It takes me a long time to get on the road :-)

jcj

On 12/10/09, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Message: 11
>  > Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:40:37 -0500
>  > From: James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com>
>  > Subject: [TriLUG] Burn-in Software
>  > To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
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>  > 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?
>  >
>  > Thanks
>
>  It isn't in RHEL as far as I can tell but you can build it yourself if
>  you can't find RPMs
>
>  http://packages.debian.org/lenny/stress
>
>
>  A tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system
>
>  'stress' is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory,
>  I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports
>  any errors it detects.
>
>  'stress' is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system
>  administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by
>  kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics,
>  and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only or
>  more frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy
>  load.
>
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