[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

[Chad McAuley]

On 9/8/07, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:

> OK, OK, keep your smart-aleck remarks to yourself, but I've just
> put together a system,a nd I am concerned about its "health" - I
> want to "burn it in" for a while (overnight should do it), and the
> machine currently has Vista installed - anyone have some ideas?
>
> I'd rather not load an involved "distributed" problem-solving
> program SETI at Home got too confusing for me ;^), but if there is
> anything that I could either run under Vista or run off media (Live
> CD, etc.) that would be perfect...

I've had good results with stresslinux. [0]  It's a LiveCD that
includes a bunch of various programs you can use to stress test a
system.  You can run the tests individually, or one of the programs
(called, aptly enough, stress) lets you launch a configurable number
of cpu, memory, i/o, and disk stressing processes.

[0]: http://www.stresslinux.org/