bonnie++ is a good stability tester. http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
I will soon release a Linux kernel compilation benchmark tool that may be interesting too, although it isn't intensive on the disks it should test the CPU's, motherboard, and RAM well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MonMotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [luau] burn-in tests > while true ; do htparm -tT /dev/hdX ; done :) > > though that won't exercise it's seek ability > > so fiddle with something like (psuedocode follows): > for each element foo in 1-<size of HDD in MB> do > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=1k count=1k start=1024^2*$foo & > done > to get it to try to write to thousands of places on the disk at the same > time > > --MonMotha
