[plug] Server stress test, RAID health monitoring

[Arkem Paul]

Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 17:53 +0800, Matthew Lambie wrote:
> 
>>I have received three new servers for work and I'm installing the OS
>>over the weekend. We're using Ubuntu on all the machines, and they all
>>have SATA RAID configurations. I love the smell of new hardware :)
>>
>>1 - Can anyone recommend a good way/application to really hammer the
>>processor, memory and disk? In the past I've compiled kernel after
>>kernel in a loop but there must be a suite of tools people use to "burn
>>in" new machines. If the disk is going to die, it will in the first few
>>days, so I'd like to thump it now and replace it before it goes into the
>>racks next week.

A quick look yielded up
http://ltp.sourceforge.net/tooltable.php

Which is a page that seems dedicated to listing out testing utilities.

-Arkem Paul