[Gllug] machine load testing

[Rich Walker]

John Winters <john at linuxemporium.co.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:23, David Damerell wrote:
> > On Monday, 2 Dec 2002, Adam Bower wrote:
> > >I just installed a new machine today which is a hand me down from 
> > >another part of the company which has been reported to "perhaps have a 
> > >hardware fault" so what I would like to do is really stress test the 
> > >machine RAM+CPU+disk all at the same time.
> > 
> > Kernel compiles are usually good.
> 
> Following on from which, if I really want to test the box I do 3 kernel
> compiles on the trot.  I once had some iffy RAM (a whole 1G of it) which
> could just get through 1 compilation but tended to fail on the 2nd.  I
> ended up doing 3 compilations just to be *really* sure the replacement
> stuff was OK.

The gcc sig-11 FAQ has a nifty script that, in essence, compiles the
kernel 1000 times and compares the outputs. Any differences are
... bad. 

HTH

cheers, Rich.

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