[plug] system burn-in software for Linux - recommendations?

[Adrian Woodley]

Tim Bowden wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:01 +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
>> Hello PLUG list members.
>>
>> I would like to have recommendations as regards burn-in software to cover 
>> memory, CPU, hard disks (incl RAID), nVidia-based video card and an ASUS 
> 
> apt-cache show cpuburn
> 
> Can't vouch for its effectiveness though; not used it.
> 
> HTH,
> Tim

I've used this before and it does a pretty good job of flogging a CPU 
and getting it's temperature up. That said, I've also never had a CPU 
fail the test.

Memtest86 has been invaluable in identifying strange system problems. It 
may take more than one run through the test suite to show up temperature 
related problems however.

And of course, there's always a kernel make all for that all over system 
hammering. Make sure you use -j<number_of_cores/cpus> to ensure you're 
giving it the maximum work out.

Adrian