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Conference decwet::nt-tools

Title:Windows NT Tools
Moderator:DECWET::SCHREIBER
Created:Tue Apr 26 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:132
Total number of notes:1309

124.0. "System stress test sw?" by AOSG::MONTAGUE () Tue Feb 18 1997 09:28

Does anyone have any recommendations for a stress test type diagnostic?

I have an intel box that has been intermittent. What I would like to do
is run some type of load/stress test on the beast to try and make it fail
consistently. I don't have a mouse mover or a keyboard typer so I would
be forgoing the mechanical interaction tests. 

In order of preference
 sdk?
 freeware
 internal tool
 shareware
 commercial

Any thoughts?

/jon
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124.1Try the resource kitBGSDEV::RJONESI don't get even I get oddTue Feb 18 1997 13:438
Not sure what kind of system stress you want to have, but the NT 4.0 Resource 
kit has a number of tools to stress the system.  There is an app. to do
memory stressing, CPU hogging (multithreaded), and I believe one that does 
file I/O to the disk.


							- Rick -
124.2NT 4.0 Resource Kit it is...AOSG::MONTAGUEWed Feb 19 1997 06:3326
>        <<< Note 124.1 by BGSDEV::RJONES "I don't get even I get odd" >>>
>                           -< Try the resource kit >-
>
>Not sure what kind of system stress you want to have, but the NT 4.0 Resource 
>kit has a number of tools to stress the system.  There is an app. to do
>memory stressing, CPU hogging (multithreaded), and I believe one that does 
>file I/O to the disk.
>
>
>							- Rick -
>

That's the style I want to run. I think I've got an intermittent sim.
But I can't seem to make it fail enough to prove it. This machine has
had it's share of problems
 failed motherboard
 failed rz26
 suspect memory?

If I can find a "stess test" that makes it fail fast enough then I can
trouble shoot the hardware to the FRU that's driving the support team
and F/S up the wall. 

Thanks,
/jon
124.3see note#2827 in IBMPC-95CPEEDY::COOKJust say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!!Thu Feb 20 1997 08:161