hi ya On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, SCHEP. - Schepke, Arnt wrote: > Hi, > just a little question: I want to test my Software-RAID1 System. > I have some errors and want something like a one year usage in a one day > test. > > Do you have an idea what program to use? - pull the power cord "now" .... see if the system keeps working - pull the ide cable to disk ... see if it keeps working and boots in degraded mode - resync everything... -- load up your PC with lots of jobs... say an xload of 10 or 50 ... and see if the system dies or hangs.... - not a fair test to renice things either... - now increase room temperature by 10C .... - that should simulate what would be 10yr lifespan and drop it to failur in 5 years ( whatever the normal lifespan was is cut in 1/2 for ( every 10C increase in ambient temp - you can simulate 4 years of work in 1 year at 20C above normal - amount of work it does ... your machine will fail long before you hit a year's work to be tested in 1 day - whatever it says is the MTBF on your components... divide that in half and that might be your expected lifespan... - no simple way to do "lifespan tests" - other than increase room temp by +10C, +20C, +30C ... -- just save your data daily to other "offline backup media" as you never know when things will die c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
