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[Daryl]

Does anyone have any software recommendations for running burn in tests prior to putting servers in production?

Thanks

[alanwoo]

Use memtest86 to test ram, use dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null to test CPU and load, use dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda to test hard disk

[Daryl]

Thanks Alan - what about for a Windows solution?

[KnownHost-Jonathan]

http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm

There's also Prime95 for CPU which is free.

Just found this one as well from intel: http://downloads.guru3d.com/IntelBur...load-2047.html

[Daryl]

Thank you Johnathan

[lionlink-dot-net]

+1 for Prime95 as a windows solution.

[alanwoo]

Sorry, I don't use windows, get a bootable Linux CDROM and boot into rescue mode to run Linux command, that's what I do for windows server.

[Daryl]

Thanks Alan - much appreciated.

[FastServ]

Prime95 works equally well on Linux and Windows. It goes a step farther than most tests by actually doing serious calculations. I've seen servers fail Prime95 after 5-10 minutes but pass others running for hours.

[Cookiesowns]

For stress testing, we generally run Prime95 with custom blend and small-fft options for at least 30 minutes.

As for windows, prime95 is a good choice, and running the suite of burn-in/benchmarks with sandra is another option as well.

[Daryl]

Just to confirm we're talking about the same Prime95 at http://www.overclock.net/t/137251/prime95

Does this do burn in tests for the CPU/MEM/HDD?

Thanks guys.

[ChaosInMind]

Originally Posted by Daryl

Just to confirm we're talking about the same Prime95 at http://www.overclock.net/t/137251/prime95

Does this do burn in tests for the CPU/MEM/HDD?

Thanks guys.

That's it, but it does NOT test HDD. It does test CPU/Memory. I'd still run Memtest afterwards regardless as a secondary measure to ensure your memory is good.