High Load System Testing!

May 18, 2006 14:44 GMT  ·  By

StressLinux is a Live CD Linux distribution dedicated to users who want to test their systems under high load and monitor the health of their PCs or servers.

What software does StressLinux include?

? stress - (A tool to impose certain types of stress on a POSIX system.) ? CPUBurn - (CPU maximum load (heat) stability test) ? CPU Burn-In - (CPU burn-in test) ? nbench - (CPU test suite) ? iometer - (I/O performance meter) ? hddtemp - (A program to display the temperature of your hard drive.) ? lm_sensors - (LM78 and other hardware monitor drivers.) ? busybox - (Single small executable which contains common UNIX utilities) ? lshw - (Hardware lister) ? bonnie++ - (Hard drive benchmark) ? netio - (Network benchmark) ? smartmontools - (S.M.A.R.T. drivetests) ? x86info - (CPU information) ? memtest86 - (A stand-alone memory diagnostic) ? memtest86+ - (An other stand-alone memory diagnostic)

The 4th Release Candidate of Stresslinux 0.3.1 has been released yesterday and comes with kernel 2.6.16.16 and updated versions of lm_sensors, lshw, busybox, stress, hddtemp. Sensors configurations files for some newer Tyan mainboards (S2676, S2865, S2891, S2892, S5112, S5151, S5360) were added to sl-wizard. Carsten Sch?ne says that this is the last RC before the final release.

Here are some screenshots of StressLinux we have made:

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