On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:25 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > But, how can I put a LOT of load onto it, and see what's causing the > problem? For all I know, the motherboard could be faulty, or the CPU, > or maybe even the SATA bus? stress! Configured correctly it will abuse a server pretty hard http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/stress/ run like cd /var/tmp screen -dmS stress screen -rx stress stress --cpu 16 --io 8 --vm 12 --vm-bytes 512M --hdd 4 --hdd-bytes 1G --timeout 86400 Oh and be sure to set a timeout if you run it remotely or you'll lock yourself out ;) -- Matthew Kent \ SA \ bravenet.com