[luau] burn-in tests
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Wed Jul 3 22:29:00 PDT 2002
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" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
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
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