Hi all, As those monitoring this bug report may have noticed, I have closed the WNPP bug for the packaging of the "Breakin" tool into Debian. In its place, I have uploaded the "Stressant" package which is a "simple stress testing and burn-in tool". To quote the package description further: stressant is designed to run on new machines to make sure they will work reliably by testing various parts of the system (CPU, RAM, disk, network) by putting them under heavy load and try to detect failures. As much as possible, stressant tries to reuse existing tools to perform the various tasks and aims to be run automatically. Instead of trying to create another Debian Derivative (basically what Breakin is doing and what Stressant *was* doing), I have shifted the development focus into creating a wrapper script around basic stress-testing software (currently fio, dd, hdparm, smartctl, stress-ng and iperf3). During its time deployed on Koumbits servers, the Stressant builds were also extensively (and mostly) used to provide rescue tools over PXE netboot environments, however. This part is now delegated to the excellent Grml distribution which already deals with creating a live recovery environment based on Debian. It is my hope that since stressant entered Debian, it can be integrated into Grml as well and be part of their regular build process. Grml provides ISO images that can be burned on CD/DVD or copied over USB sticks. It can be ran directly from RAM and/or in "forensics" (AKA "read-only" mode) and can also boot off the network. I have engaged with the Grml community in various forms to move the efforts from the Stressant derivative into some form of upstream, which will be useful for a larger community as well. I still have to document how to switch an "old stressant" configuration to the new system, but all the bits are there and migration should be fairly smooth. The source code is now available on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/anarcat/stressant Details of the remaining issues for Grml integration are here: https://gitlab.com/anarcat/stressant/blob/master/README.md#grml More explanations on why Debirf was finally abandoned as a build tool are here: https://gitlab.com/anarcat/stressant/blob/master/README.md#debirf I want to again express many thanks to the Debirf team for creating that great project that was so useful in getting the first prototypes of stressant up and running. Also thanks to the Grml team for providing feedback and their openness in welcoming Stressant contributions so far. I'd be happy to hear feedback from people that have expressed interest in this tool. I'm developping this mostly on my free time now, but I hope it will be useful in production for others and would be happy to accompany organizations that wish to deploy this in the field and/or customize it to fit their needs. A. -- Hasta la victoria siempre.
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