[PLUG] Tools for really thrashing a machine, and reporting specific errors

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Wed Sep 12 18:26:44 UTC 2007


On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:15:25PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> So I am looking for something that thrashes harder, but like MEMTEST
> is small and standalone and easy to diagnose.  The classic "compile
> X" kinds of tests may stress the machine, but I would like diagnostics,
> too, as specific as possible, not just "it failed".

I have my doubts you'll be able to get much more info than that.
You can thrash the system with CPUBurn and/or Bonnie++.
More here: http://lbs.sourceforge.net/

I wonder if thrashing the network might reveal something?



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