Michael J McCafferty said:
> All,
>
> I need something to beat up on hard drives to make the weak ones
> fail, or at
> least spit out an error or two. I know many people like to compile a
> kernel to
> beat up on a machine, but I need to let it run for a while.
> "Burning In" systems by installaing an OS and just letting them
> idle for a
> while isn't cuttin' it... it doesn't seem to weed out the weak
> components well
> enough.
> Is there such a thing as a total system stressor or a benchmarking
> tool that
> will run over and over ? Something that works out the CPU, memory and
> disks ?
> Maybe network too ?
memtest for testing memory, burnK7/burnMMX for cpu stressing and
diskperf to test disk subsystems.
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