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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:50:25 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Don O'Neil <don@lizardhill.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System Burn In
Message-ID:  <20060228215025.GA87356@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <058101c63ca5$585d0780$0300020a@mickey>
References:  <058101c63ca5$585d0780$0300020a@mickey>

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:27:07PM -0800, Don O'Neil wrote:
> What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBSD?
> I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.. To make sure the
> hardware is 100% good before putting it in production.

Doing something like a buildworld -j64 loop (if you have enough
memory, otherwise reduce -j level to avoid swapping) is going to
exercise your system a fair bit.

Kris

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