From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 16:28:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AAC16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:28:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA79F43D55 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:27:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@thebunker.net) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1689767D; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:27:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j0SGRpPD038263; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:27:51 GMT (envelope-from matthew@gravitas.thebunker.net) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by gravitas.thebunker.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0SGRgNU038262; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:27:42 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:27:42 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: "O. Hartmann" Message-ID: <20050128162742.GA37605@gravitas.thebunker.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , "O. Hartmann" , dave@ephgroup.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41FA4AB2.4030108@ephgroup.com> <41FA4E2C.8090602@uni-mainz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41FA4E2C.8090602@uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: dave@ephgroup.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware testing / burn in software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:28:01 -0000 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:37:32PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Dave Carrera schrieb: >=20 > >Hi List, > > > >Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software=20 > >available ? > > > >I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie,=20 > >mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. > > > >What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self booting= =20 > >cd with the testing software on the disk, i can only hope :-) > > > >Any help or advice is appreciated > > > >Thank you in advance > > > >Dave C >=20 > For testing and stressing CPU/Cahce/memory interface look at > /usr/ports/sysutils/cpuburn. >=20 > For memory testing purposes > /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest > and > /usr/ports/sysuitls/memtest86 > is very useful, I would prefer latter due to an ISO image for autostart. >=20 > For other purposes and device's testing I do not know any tool (under=20 > UNIX like FreeBSD), > maybe bonny for harddrives? For a burn-in test, I something like the following to be efficaceous: # cd /usr/src # while true ; do make buildworld buildkernel ; done and leave to compute vigourously overnight. If that can run continuously for 12 hours then you can be pretty confident that your hardware is A-OK. Plus if the magic smoke has not been emitted after 12 hours or so of that, you can be pretty confident you machine will stand up to load. Of course, this might not be exactly what the original poster wants as it does assume you've put at least a minimal install of FreeBSD on the system, together with all of the kernel and system sources. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQfpn/pr7OpndfbmCAQJjPwQA79jkLMNx7ycJ5zP/KQZBm5vJN3wWkxpA U0lN0rChgoL8z9ipRfRQdEXlc1D5/Z6Gut/jfKs5KaKQKw5kKX1wYMbIAsHWMY5r IirbFFB0jn/E51O+U5SUzlhWZbbycrz5DCsfkFKvhWCGCL3gZRik6oRPLg7gPPNc 1DtqQD8nFCU= =P2B3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--