pkg install SUNWfilebench Should be something in there you can hammer at it with.
Cheers, Ben 2009/6/5 Chris Wells <chris.unix.dude at gmail.com>: > Thanks to all who responded. > > I didn't have a comparison system, but I was able to isolate the > problem down to a single DDR2 stick (via trial and error). > annoyingly, even once I'd which stick was to blame, even when I only > used that stick, memtest86+ did not find any errors on > it. > > Cumulatively, I had left memtest86 running for over 40 hours, and it > completed 24 full runs over that period. (memtest86+ 2.11). > > Still, I don't have way of putting load onto the system to guarantee a > failure, so sometimes the system would be stable for 24 hours, and on > other occasions (worst case!) 24 seconds. > > The best way of loading up the machine I found was to run "zpool > scrub" at the same time as running a couple of VMs (in VirtualBox of > course), with a couple of diagnostic tools running inside. > > And it was interesting that Windows7 didn't crash at all (and > continued running two benchmarks simultaneously over 24 hours). ?I > guess maybe a lots of Windows 7 is bloat, and the affected physical > memory location happened to coincide with data, not program stack, or > that Windows doens't actively check NTFS filesystem checksums like ZFS > does. > > Anyway - problem found. > > Chris > >> >> Already mentioned but just to be sure.. a barebone setup (board, CPU, 1 >> stick of RAM, graphics) is best - I don't know if your board has onboard >> video but you might like to try and revert to that for testing, OTOH, >> disable all south bridge functions (nic, sound, etc) - There's often a 'load >> failsafe defaults' option in the BIOS setup. >> >> As mentioned, check the cable. Actually don't bother checking it, just >> replace it. >> >> What are your temps like (CPU/case)? Is cooling adequate? Does the ambient >> environment seem to effect the frequency of crashes? Adequate power supply >> to the components is also important - are you using a nice weighty high >> wattage PSU? You mention high IO load raises the issue - maybe there isn't >> enough juice? >> >> Might like to check a non Solaris based test suite as well as the Seagate >> Seatools suite (will pass though I'm sure), ultimate boot cd (UBCD) has a >> few other disk testing utilities included. >> >> Good luck, >> >> Peter Davidoff. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > ug-msosug mailing list > ug-msosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug >
