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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/09/08 Sat PM 08:07:10 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

>On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:31:17 -0500 (CDT)
>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?
>
>Have you booted it up?

How else would I know it was slow? ;^)

>If so, that's pretty harsh for Vista... 

OK, your getting a smart-alecky...

>Don't actually do anything with it, that would be cruel.

To whom - the machine, me, or both? ;^)

>Seriously though, the problem with stress testing Vista is that it will be
>nearly impossible to tell if failures are due to hardware or Vista.

My "issue" is I don't want to flatten the drive

>I would stress test it with something like NetBSD, memtest86, and as bare an
>OS as you can get that will run mprime95 and maybe a really intensive
>threaded I/O benchmark.

Actually, now that I think of it, memtest86 is on the Ubuntu instal discs... 
(no need to install another OS to test the system)

Lionel