[ILUG] checking stability

[Liam Bedford]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:24:32AM +0100, Ray Quinn came forth with:
> I've a debian box running at 500Mhz (83.5 x 6).
> The RAM is currently only PC66.
> I'm not sure how stable it is.
> Can anyone recommend (console) software that will
> test the system to see how stable it is,
> and report if any I/O errors occur ?
> Something that will hammer the CPU,
> and RAM would be nice :)
cd /usr/src/linux
for BLAH in `seq 1 4` ; do
	make dep
	make clean
	make MAKE="make -j4" -j4 bzImage
	make MAKE="make -j4" -j4 modules
done

if it survives that, it'll survive just about anything.

If you're worried about memory, get a copy of memtest (somewhere on sgi).

L.
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