From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 01:58:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 E94F716A41F for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:58:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C261243D5E for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:58:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k021wSc2088417; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k021wErU088412; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:58:13 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Tofik Suleymanov Message-ID: <20060102015813.GC88240@thought.org> References: <20060101212007.GA87257@thought.org> <43B86FB3.2010203@oxygen.az> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B86FB3.2010203@oxygen.az> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: STressing a new server... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:58:45 -0000 On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:11:31AM +0000, Tofik Suleymanov wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in "stuff" > > it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and > > other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of > > pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator > > that the HW would last. After 4+ years, no prob. Now I > > have a new box, custom built. > > > > Unfortunately, I've lost (or forgotten!) the same of the > > *.sh script and some of the utilities. So what should I > > be running and with an example of args? Last time I believe > > there were 5 or 6 stressors. > > > > Also, what's the memory testor utility calld? I have > > a gig of DDR in this new puppy, and want to be sure that > > every last BIT is good. > > > > Help much appreciated! > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > Try to do a make buildworld. Sure; no problem, but I want more. BTW, most of you already know this, but it bears re-stating: even memory and drives that have been well pounded can go bad after N months. That's only happened to me onnce (with memory); a few times with drives. But failures are more likely in the first several days to a week or so. No sense in eating a loss if testing will increase my odds... . gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix