[Gllug] machine load testing

[Mark Lowes]

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:21, Adam Bower wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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. Does anybody know of a good 
> tool to do this? All it seems you can get are tools that do each 
> component 1 at a time, but i want to do it from just 1 tool.

Things we do to pound servers before they go into production :)

	bonnie (24h)
	seti (or similar cpu hog, one instance per cpu, 24h)
	memtest (from boot floopy)
	building a linux kernel in a loop (24h)

If they survive that lot without tossing errors we start building up the
system ready to go into service.

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