[TriLUG] diagnostic/stress test software

[Tim Jowers]

Knoppix has memtest option FWIW. Also, most (all?) server companies ship a
platform CD with stress test for each and every piece of hardware in the
server. If you have a server then you should have such CD or be able to
download it from the server vendor. (Or even from Intel or Acer which is
really where it all comes from though that will take some finesse to get
access to their download sites as these are usually only for VAR's like
DELL, HP, IBM, etc.) At NCR we used to also provide the option of putting it
in a small partition so it was on disk as well. I think there are some
bootable Linux distros for stress test too?

Where did it hang on boot? Had it started to load vmlinuz into RAM? Or was
it still in BIOS? Might look back in /var/log/messages if it was during
Linux OS loading. Also, did all of the SCSI disks initialize? Failing SCSI
disk is the common sporadic hang on boot I've seen.

Tim

On 6/7/07, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> kevin,
>
> going by what my boss said (i haven't drilled down to look), this program
> has a bootable version, so that it does not have to run on the os its
> self.
>
> any suggestions? free is better, but it needs to be just as stable as any
> of
> the commercial products.
>
> thanks :)
>
>
> On 6/7/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Electronic Download (WINDOWS) ONLY"
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > Have you F/LOSSed today?
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com>
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2007 1:02:31 PM
> > Subject: [TriLUG] diagnostic/stress test software
> >
> >
> > Gents,
> >
> > we have a linux server that keeps has hung twice on boot this month (its
> > restarted 3times a week)
> >
> > we are looking for a self booting diagnostic tool that will do both
> > diagnostic and stress testing.
> >
> > we have found one "
> >
> >
> http://www.smithmicro.com/default.tpl?group=product_full&sku=CKDWINEE&prodview=intro
> > ";
> > , but i wanted to see if you guys had any other recomendations?
> >
> > jsn
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