[TriLUG] diagnostic/stress test software

[Jason Watts]

I cant really answer any of these questions directly, or firmly, as i am in
limited contact with the boss person.

I know that the system was built by my boss, however, im not sure to what
extent. also, i know that one of the two server's (not sure which one, and
only having problems with one of them) is running the non Susie enterprise
edition, with the enterprise packages added.

as far as were its hanging, again, I'm not sure, cause the server isn't
close, and i dont have access from here.

I can say that none of the hd lights are flashing, and when you move the
mouse, its just a blank screen.  not sure what else has been determined with
he system hanging.



On 6/7/07, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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