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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:09:17 -0600
From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To: "Don O'Neil" <don@lizardhill.com>
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Subject: Re: System Burn In
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On 2/28/06, Don O'Neil <don@lizardhill.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to 'burn in' or 'stress test' a new system w/ FreeBS=
D?
> I'd like to stress test the CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.. To make sure the
> hardware is 100% good before putting it in production.
>

Maybe try http://www.holm.cc/stress/ but this would be like
forkbombing.  If the system locks it may be a kernel problem, not be a
hardware problem.

Check out UBCD, just type it into google.

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