http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/
Stresslinux is a lightweight Linux distribution designed to test a computer's hardware by running the components at high load while monitoring their health.
It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems.
StressLinux runs from external bootable media: CD, USB stick, PXE boot, or you can run the VMWare image. There are good instructions for creating your chosen boot medium.
When you boot up, you have the option to allow sl-wizard to probe your system for sensors and then load the appropriate drivers
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stress@stresslinux:~>;sudo sl-wizard.sh
This is not your an ordinary stripped-down Linux. It was built with SUSE Studio, and is based on OpenSUSE.
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