Exerciser

[garskoci]

Does anyone know if there is a good system "exerciser" out there? I 'm looking for an application that will keep the system busy with work. I just bought a new box and I want to beat on it for a week or so, to make sure that it's sound.
Thanks.

[paradox]

Yeah its called cron! :P

Aragorn

You could always do some of the things like Seti@home or the other type projects...

[JimH]

OK, here is a script to beat up your box. Just copy it to a file and run it. Don't forget to make the file executable.

chmod a+x filename


#! /bin/bash
#Beat up your new box script :-)
#This will only work on RedHat kernel source
#A vanilla kernel tree Configure does not have a non-interactive mode

#To use this on a vanilla kernel tree remove the RedHat only section
#You will have to setup a default config for the kernel compile to use.
#make mrproper
#make xconfig or make menuconfig
#make dep
#make clean
#Then run the script

#Change this as required
KERNELSOURCE=/usr/src/linux-2.4

cd $KERNELSOURCE

while [ : ]
do
#Start RedHat kernel source only
echo "make mrproper"
sleep 2
make mrproper

echo "make symlinks"
make symlinks

echo "Configure a default kernel"
sleep 2
#copy Configure to the toplevel directory to work around a path problem.
#Configure looks for Documentation/Configure.help from the toplevel directory
cp $KERNELSOURCE/scripts/Configure Configure
/bin/sh Configure -D $KERNELSOURCE/arch/i386/config.in

echo "make dep"
sleep 2
make dep

echo "make clean"
sleep 2
make clean
#End RedHat kernel source only

echo "make bzImage"
sleep 2
if (make bzImage > /dev/null) ; then
echo "GOOD kernel compile at 'date'" >> /tmp/kernelcompile.txt
else
echo "BAD kernel compile at 'date'" >> /tmp/kernelcompile.txt
fi

echo "make modules"
sleep 2
if (make modules > /dev/null ) ; then
echo "GOOD modules compile at 'date'" >> /tmp/kernelcompile.txt
else
echo "BAD modules compile at 'date'" >> /tmp/kernelcompile.txt
fi

#Uncomment these 3 lines if not using RH kernel source
# echo "make clean and start again"
# sleep 2
# make clean

done

Jim H

[JimH]

I fogot to add you also might want to run memtest86 on it.

http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/

Jim H