Simplifying the Complex - by Kamran Shah

Disk Stress & Fault Test Create a 1GB file with 1000 x 1MB blocks. localhost:/$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/temp-file.tmp bs=1M count=1000 Output expected with time it takes and disk write speed in MB/s 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 6.83976 s, 153 MB/s Now you can run a md5sum check to see if the infomration in memory and disk appears correctly and if all md5sums identify any mismatch which would indicate a faulty disk or RAM. localhost:/$ for i in {1..5}; do md5sum /tmp/ temp-file.tmp ; done Output usualyl expected in below format e5c834fbdaa6bfd8eac5eb9404eefdd4  /tmp/ temp-file.tmp e5c834fbdaa6bfd8eac5eb9404eefdd4  /tmp/ temp-file.tmp e5c834fbdaa6bfd8eac5eb9404eefdd4  /tmp/ temp-file.tmp e5c834fbdaa6bfd8eac5eb9404eefdd4  /tmp/ temp-file.tmp e5c834fbdaa6bfd8eac5eb9404eefdd4  /tmp/ temp-file.tmp CPU Stress Test Output a string repeatedly until killed and direct the output to nothing will consume ver...