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

[Timothy White]

Although with current machines, kernel builds no longer take 3 hours,
and i find it hard to get a good solid load on my dual core!

On 7/27/07, Adrian Woodley <Adrian at diskworld.com.au> wrote:
> 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
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