PassMark (TM) Software's BurnInTest for Linux Copyright (C) 2019 PassMark Software All Rights Reserved http://www.passmark.com Overview ======== Passmark's BurnInTest for Linux is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability. Status ====== This is a shareware program. This means that you need to buy it if you would like to continue using it after the evaluation period. What's in the "burnintest" folder? ==================================== 1. BITErrorClassification.txt (see documentation how to customize your errors). 2. help folder (html based help) 3. 64bit folder containing bit_gui_x64 (BurnInTest Linux GUI 64 bit version, double-click to launch app). bit_cmd_line_x64 (BurnInTest Linux command line 64 bit version). cmdline_config.txt (Text based config file for command line version) savedkey.dat (to get you started with the unregistered shareware version) 4. BurnInTest_Linux_CLI_EULA.txt 5. readme.txt 6. burnintest.sh (a script to check for 64 bit libraries and launch BurnInTest) Installation ============ 1. Uninstall any previous version of BurnInTest Linux by deleting it's folder. 2. Copy the new "burnintest" folder to your desired location or copy the contents of the new "burnintest" folder to your desired folder (I shall call this the destination_folder throughout this documentation). 3. Make sure you have read write permission for the destination_folder. This can be done with a CTL-I when you select the destination_folder's icon and changing the permission to read/write for owner, group and others. This can also be done via the command line with "chmod 774 destination_folder". You can only do this if you are the owner of the destination_folder or if you logged in as root user. (To change ownership of files/folders, use "chown user_name:user_group file_name". Type "man chmod" or "man chown" if you need assistance.) 4. Also make sure you have read/write permission for the "savedkey.dat" file and "LastUsed.cfg" file by following step (3). UnInstallation ============== Delete the folder that it was previously installed in or delete the contents of the folder. How to launch application ========================== 1. Application can be launched by double-clicking on the "burnintest.sh" icon, or entering the 64 bit directory and choosing a specific instance of BurnInTest to run. 2. To run application via the command line, from your terminal: i) Change the current working directory to the destination_folder by typing "cd path_to_destination_folder" (There is an easy way to copy path by dragging the destination_folder's icon into the terminal). ii) To be sure you have changed your working directory to destination_folder, issue a "pwd" command on the command line. This will print the path of the working directory. In this case, "path_to_destination_folder" should be the output. iii) Run the launch script by typing "./burnintest.sh" which will determine if you are using 64 bit linux, if the required libraries are available and launch BurnInTest 3. To choose which versions of BurnInTest to run (64 bit, GUI/command line) i) Change the current working directory to the destination_folder by typing "cd path_to_destination_folder" (There is an easy way to copy path by dragging the destination_folder's icon into the terminal). ii) To be sure you have changed your working directory to destination_folder, issue a "pwd" command on the command line. This will print the path of the working directory. In this case, "path_to_destination_folder" should be the output. iii) Change the working directory to 64bit directory iv) Launch the application by typing "./bit_gui_x64" for 64 bit GUI version, "./bit_cmd_line_x64" for 64 bit command line version Hardware Requirements ====================== - Intel and AMD compatible CPU. - Recommended 256MB of memory. - 10MB Disk space (more is required to run the disk test). - Optional serial and parallel loop back plugs for port testing. - A network connection for network testing. - A CD ROM + 1 Music CD or Data CD to run the CD test. - Optional specialized PassMark test CD/DVDs to run PassMark's CD/DVD test. - Optional PassMark USB2 test plugs for usb test Software Requirements: ====================== - 64bit Linux - Linux kernel 3.10 or higher - glibc 2.17 or higher - Qt 5.6.1 and higher - Open GL 1.2 and higher (for 3D graphics test plus working Open GL drivers for your video card). - libusb 1.0 - Administrator privilleges are required for certain tests. Linux distributions that meet these requirement (GUI version): ========================================================= So far, the following distributions have been tested (or reported) that met these requirements: CentOS 7 with Qt 5.6.1 installed Porteus 3.2.2 The command line version requires far less libraries and should work on most distributions. For a more comprehensive list, please refer to: http://www.passmark.com/support/bitlinux_faq.htm#software_requirement To aid us in making the software better for you, please e-mail to help@passmark.com if you have tested successfully in another Linux distribution of if you encountered issues with running BurnInTest for Linux on your system. Version History =============== Here is a summary of changes that have been made in each version of BurnInTest Linux: Version Date -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments (latest top, oldest bottom) BurnInTest v4.1 (1000) Linux 5 June 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Removed dependency on QtWebkit and QtWebKitWidgets from the GUI version which should make it easier to install on newer Linux versions where the library was no longer available BurnInTest v4.0 (1005) Linux 10 April 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added logging of PCIe card temperature and voltage readings each cycle to the trace log (level 1) - Made some changes to how disks are displayed in the test preferences window to try and prevent strange behaviour when there was a large number of unmounted devices present on a system, only mounted / raw drives will be displayed. - Made some changes so that more partition information is collected for nvme drives and displayed in the system information - Fixed an issue where the default config file may start an empty disk test rather than selecting the root mount path - Fixed an issue where when running multiple serial port tests one or more ports could be left open after the test was stopped which could prevent retesting until BurnInTest was closed - Fixed a bug with the result window not displaying when manually stopped even if the "Always display result window" preference was selected - Fixed a bug where the result window would not display after the end of a script BurnInTest v4.0 (1004) Linux 2 August 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed an issue with the management console configuration not accepting the new PHP filename - Updated error message when BurnInTest fails to start due to non-ASCII characters in path - Fixed a bug with post test external application action not always being launched correctly from then command line version - Fixed a bug preventing the management console connection from connecting properly - Added MachineID field to cmdline_config.txt to allow setting of of management console machine ID in text config file - Added -MGT command line parameter to allow setting of management console machine ID BurnInTest v4.0 (1003) Linux 11 April 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added support for longer serial port names (eg TTYXRUSB0) - Fixed a bug where the PCIe test was not displaying a "No operations" error if there were no operations during testing. This could occur if the wrong kernel driver was installed (using the V1 driver with a card with V2 firmware) BurnInTest v4.0 (1002) Linux 3 October 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a crash that could occur on some systems at startup when collecting memory system information - Fixed a crash that could occur in the libusb library at startup on some systems (seen on Fedora 26) - Fixed a bug that could prevent serial port names being removed from the GUI test preferences BurnInTest v4.0 (1001) Linux 24 August 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added machine serial number to log file (when available) - Added video card name, disk info, optical drive info to the customer certificate - Changed PCIe test min/max reporting to be more accurate - Fixed a bug preventing the duty cycle and time being set to 0 (run forever) from the command line - Fixed a bug where if the %SYSTEMSERIAL% (or other flag) was used in the log file name preferences then it wasn't being replaced correctly when choosing to save the log file directly from the file menu - Fixed a bug where if the %SYSTEMSERIAL% (or other flag) was used in the log file name preferences and the customer certificate option was selected then it wasn't being replaced properly in the filename when the file was created - using the "Save Results report" menu item BurnInTest v4.0 (1000) Linux 18 May 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Updated user interface to use QT5 (5.6.1) - Added management console support (http://www.passmark.com.au/products/bitmgtconsole.htm). See the "Management" tab in the BurnInTest preferences for new options - Added periodic logging setting to logging options in BurnInTest preferences - Added post-test options to BurnInTest preferences. Can now choose the auto/manual stop actions and external applications to run for pass and failure cases. - Increased amount of system information collected and displayed (in particular for RAM, network cards and hard drives). - Changed system information network output so all network cards are displayed (not just active ones with IP address) - Filtering out virtual bridge entries from available network devices (virbr) BurnInTest v3.4 (1002) Linux 8 November 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - CD test will now display a "Filesystem not mounted" error if specified CD device is not available - Made some changes to USB3 test to avoid USB connection errors at test start - Some changes were made to USB3 test start up and connection phase to slow down the process and give the Linux USB library time to process the requests before heavily loading with the send/received requests - The first 40 packets sent during the USB3 test will have a 10 millisecond sleep per packet to stop the Linux USB library being put under too much load while connecting plugs BurnInTest v3.4 (1001) Linux 4 October 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Made some changes to the serial test so that hardware flow control is disabled before checking the RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR lines respond as expected to being set high/low. This was required due to some Moxa PCIe serial cards not being able to allow manual setting of RTS/DSR lines when hardware flow control is enabled. - A message will now be logged when trying to run a script file with no RUN commands defined - Added the Pass/Fail result window to the GUI version after a script is run (if the EXIT command is not used) BurnInTest v3.4 (1000) Linux 2 September 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - PCIe test changed to be compatible with the PCIe card firmware and driver version 2. PCIe cards with older firmware need to use an older version of BurnInTest and driver or have their firmware updated. - Increased the timeout when waiting for serial port status changes (eg CTS/RTS checks) to match the windows version of BurnInTest (30 millseconds) - Fixed a possible bug where flow control error (RTS/CTS etc) errors could be logged after the test has been stopped BurnInTest v3.3 (1003) Linux 22 June 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added support for latest USB3 plug firmware (v2.0) which improves throughput - Added MESSAGE script command support to GUI version of BurnInTest Linux - Edited the BITCertificateTemplate.html file so that is using Linux carriage returns only (instead of a mix of Linux and DOS style) - Fixed some possible deadlock situations in the sound test - Changed some disk test error logging output to be more clear, file size, number of blocks and block size will now be printed at the start of normal log. - Added NVMe disk support - When opening a command line config file the config values are now set to defult value before processing the text based configuration file to prevent some situations where some config values could be left blank (such as the sound test device name) BurnInTest v3.3 (1002) Linux 6 January 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added ZFS support to disk test - Added PCIE duty cycle keyword to command line config text file - Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to run the PCIE test in the command line version when there was an invalid duty cycle value - Fisxed a bug where the command line version wasn't reading in decimal values for AutoStopTime correctly BurnInTest v3.3 (1001) Linux 16 November 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added some extra system information to log files and customer certificates - Added a workaround when gathering system information to prevent reporting an incorrect number of DIMMs - Added -b command line option to set disk test blocksize as KB (eg -b 16 is 16384 byte block size) - Fixed a small memory leak in the disk test BurnInTest v3.3 (1000) Linux 4 August 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added PCIe test card support (requires a separate driver to be compiled and installed) - Fixed a bug where the timestamped log file option in the command line configuration was not being enabled properly BurnInTest v3.2 (1004) Linux 11 June 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a crash when there are more than 120 disk test entries in the command line config file - Fixed a bug with the logging output of disk test operations BurnInTest v3.2 (1003) Linux 28 May 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Enabled setting serial ports test speed up to 921600 in command line config file - Fixed display of command line disk test statistics BurnInTest v3.2 (1002) Linux 27 April 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Changed default block size in disk test from disk preferred (gathered from system information) to 16KB default to increase speed of testing - Changed behaviour of the disk test to only change patterns after the disk has been filled (rather than after each test file) to match the BurnInTest windows behaviour - Added the command line option -J to allow the disk test pattern to be changed after each test file when used with the Cyclic pattern to match the BurnInTest windows behaviour - Improved the speed the disk test will run at while lowering CPU resources required - Disk test information screen in command line version will now display what pattern is currently in use when the cyclic pattern option is used - Increased the width of the test preferences if there is available screen room so all tabs are displayed - Added test preferences option to set sound device name, this should be left as the default value but may need to be changed in rare cases - Disk test default duty cycle now set to 100% - Fixed a bug where the multiple files (time stamped) option wouldn't be displayed as enabled next time the test preferences was opened - Fixed a display error where the cycle count for the selected disk was not being updated in the disk test window - Fixed a bug where the parameter for EXECUTE script command was not always being passed correctly - Fixed a bug preventing -K command line flag from being correctly enabled - Fixed a crash that could occur when running the disk test and not having permission to create the test file (eg running as a non-root user without sudo) - Fixed a display error of SMBIOS information on some systems where a warning message about the SMBIOS version was displayed instead of the system information BurnInTest v3.2 (1001) Linux 24 October 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Made some changes so BurnInTest waits longer for the memory test to finish cleaning up during the stop/closing tests process - Made a change to the start test button so it can no longer trigger multiple start test messages - Fixed a bug when outputting the location of a memory verify error in the trace log, the buffer starting location was being printed and not the location where the error occurred - Fixed a bug where an extra CPU test thread was being started - Fixed a bug in the serial port test where a longer than expected sleep during the test phase could reduce the overall throughput of the test - Fixed a bug in the serial port results display where very low baud rates would not display a throughput speed of less than 100 bytes/sec - Fixed a crash on exit, BurnInTest would attempt to close a libusb handle without checking it was successfully opened, in some cases this could cause a crash during the exit process. BurnInTest v3.2 (1000) Linux 26 September 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added plugin support - Updated the optical test to work with passmark blu-rays - Fixed a bug that could occur when using USB2 plugs on USB3 expansion cards, starting a new test after stopping the previous one could see the plugs left in an unusable state and the new test would not be able to open the USB2 plug for testing. - Fixed a file handle resource leak in the USB2 test (when using the benchmark option) that could eventually see the plugs unable to be opened when switching between loopback and benchmark mode and log an error. - Fixed a bug with the serial port test where DSR wasn't always checked for the expected state - Changed the way disk tests set unbuffered reads/writes when opening a file BurnInTest v3.1 (1002) Linux 6 May 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Changed the network test to prioritise selecting network cards that have an IP address (rather than previous behaviour of choosing them in order as they appear on the system). - Stopped the log from outputting empty benchmark results when using a USB3 plug - Mount points with the type "overlayfs" are no longer included when using the "test all disks" options in the disk test settings. BurnInTest v3.1 (1003) Linux 28 October 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Made some changes to the USB test so on some systems that don't have "/proc/bus/usb" information the test will now start correctly - Made some changes to the USB3 test start process, on some systems the USB3 plugs are slow to re-enumerate after BurnInTest configures them and could cause a connection error while the test was starting, this was more apparent when running on a live system (eg USB boot) - Fixed a bug in the GUI versions where scripts were not being launched correctly from the menu item after BurnInTest was running (scripts launched from the command line were unaffected) - Fixed a bug where a very large number of available network ports could cause a crash - Added a new error message and fixed a crash when libusb fails to start, BurnInTest will now run but the USB tests will be disabled if libusb is unable to be accessed - Added a -B command line flag so the command line version can be run in the background (eg using &), this means all user input is turned off so if no start/finish time is set BurnInTest will run indefinitely BurnInTest v3.1 (1001) Linux 5 August 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added benchmark mode to USB2 test as part of each cycle as well as a new options to enable/disable the benchmark component of the test - Can now edit the "ttyS" edit field in the serial port setting in the GUI versions to add differently named serial ports eg ttyUSB - Added sound loopback test - Made some changes to how parallel ports are detected and selected for testing will now scan the /proc/sys/dev/parport directory for available parallel ports - Fixed a bug that was preventing BurnIntest from getting the IPs of available NICs caused by changes in the way ifconfig displays NIC information (Fedora 18) - Fixed an issue where running the memory test in the 32bit build of BurnInTest when run in conjuction with other tests could fail with an "Error allocating RAM" error. BurnInTest v3.1 (1000) Linux 6 February 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added USB3 loopback plug support - Updated the USB library BurnInTest uses from libusb0.1 to libusb1 - Changed behaviour so if the number of cpus/cores cannot be determined a warning will be logged and 1 CPU test thread will started by default - Fixed a crash on startup in the GUI version if "Error by category" under the "View" menu was enabled - Fixed a bug in the network settings where the address for 4 & 5 were linked to the wrong checkbox - Fixed a bug where raw hard disks were not being correctly counted and would not be displayed for selection in the test preferences or start the test as expected BurnInTest v3.0 (1007) Linux 7 November 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug where the command line version could crash when a USB drive was mounted at start up - Fixed a bug where using a long logging file path in the command line configuration file could cause the BurnInTest command line version to stop working - Fixed a bug preventing the CD and serial tests from starting correctly - Added some extra information to trace level 1 logging when closing a serial port fails BurnInTest v3.0 (1006) Linux 17 September 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added keywords so a memory test pattern can be specified in the command line configuration - Increased the amount of disk tests that can be run to 120 - Added ability to test network drives (CIFS, NFS, SMBFS) - Changed command line version to check for mount point or device when specifying a disk test in the command line config file - Added %DATE% and %SYSTEMSERIAL% flags for use in creating log names and paths - Added "Test all raw disks" to disk test preferences and a new keyword for the disk test section of the command line configuration - Added test pattern and file size settings for use with "Test all" options - Changed behaviour of BurnInTest when the configuration file can't be saved, instead of warning and exiting only the warning is displayed and BurnInTest will continue to run - Fixed a bug where the filesize for the hard disk test could not be set below 1% in the command line version - Fixed a bug where the number of CPUs in the system information could be incorrect - Fixed a bug where the 32bit version of BurnInTest could try and allocate more RAM than 32buit process can access if there was more than 4GB of RAM on the system - Fixed a bug in the command line version where if a hard disk was not mounted the error was displayed in the user interface but not logged correctly - Fixed a crash when the disk test and text format logging is enabled and there are no raw disks detected on the system - Fixed a bug where the incorrect disk name could be printed in the log file when using text format logging - Fixed a bug where the memory pattern could be reset to cyclic each time BurnInTest was started BurnInTest v3.0 (1005) Linux 10 May 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug in memory information display where motherboards with multiple banks of memory where being incorrectly parsed - Fixed a bug where error messages were not always displayed correctly in the command line version - Clarified USB test error to indicate root permissions are needed to run the test - Changed how USB test threads are allocated a USB plug to test to avoid timing issues when the tests start - Changed how the available USB plugs are detected to fix a bug where some Linux systems no longer support usbdevfs (eg Fedora 16) BurnInTest v3.0 (1004) Linux 15 March 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed bug in the command line text configuration, the CPU test sections were not being disabled when commented out - Fixed bug in command line config where more than 40 disk entries could cause a crash - Fixed a bug in the disk test where when running multiple disk tests BurnInTest could occasionally fail to retrieve the available free space and report that the drive was not mounted. - Fixed a bug in the RAW disk test, random seeking pattern, (32 bit only) where a seek error could be reported incorrectly - Fixed a bug in the 32bit versions where memory information was being reported incorrectly on system with more than 4GB of RAM BurnInTest v3.0 (1003) Linux 5 October 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Changed how available disks are detected and displayed in the test preferences in order to display large numbers of available disks - Changed how disk test preferences are stored - Fixed a bug in the command line version where the correct number of CPU tests were not started in some cases - Fixed a bug with the network test where in some situations a checksum error could be logged even though no error occured. BurnInTest v3.0 (1002) Linux 9 September 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug with the scripting where when launching a script from the command line sometimes the script would launch the tests twice at the same time - Changed the behaviour of the serial port test to prevent situations where the test could freeze rather than throw an error (only when using custom test plugs) - Fixed a bug in the parallel test where if the port address was not set to a default value the sent/received count would not be displayed correctly - Some changes to the serial port test were made to match the windows behaviour, if an error is encountered the test will now continue after closing and re-opening the serial connection - Some timeout changes were made in the serial test to prevent the test pausing rather then timing out in some cases - Fixed a bug where the test configuration window could crash if there were more than 40 hard disks / paritions detected on the system - Fixed a bug where multiple "Device" keywords could be added to the same "" module of the disk test section of the command line configuration. This would cause the disk test to start with incorrect parameters. - Changed how the disk test files were deleted to improve the speed of deletions when cleaning up old test files BurnInTest v3.0 (1001) Linux 10 June 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - When no system info is able to be retrieved a N/A is now displayed - Removed incorrect warning message being shown before welcome dialog when evaluation time has expired - Changed behaviour so disk test files will be created in the root directory '/' if startup disk is selected for testing - Fixed a bug in the command line version when using a non default serial port - Fixed a bug in the command line version where raw disk tests could report 0 operations while the test was running - Fixed a bug where the CPU test was not always creating the right amount of test threads - Fixed a bug where an error message would sometimes not be displayed correctly if an invalid key was used - Fixed a bug where some previously saved configuration options would not be loaded correctly next time configuration options were opened - Removed some stderr output shown when running the gui version from a terminal BurnInTest v3.0 (1000) Linux 17 August 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - New licence keys will be required for version 3 of BurnInTest Linux, please see http://www.passmark.com/products/bitlinux.htm to check if you qualify for a free upgrade - Updated CPU tests to be more inline with current Windows version, including general instructions, FPU, SSE, SSE2 and primes tests - Updated user interface to use QT4 (4.6.2) - Updated main window to included system information (where available), test results and event log to allow easier access to these items - Main window can now be resized - Changed event log to color code information and error lines based on severity - Added edit error classification function - Changed some menu item names and location to be more consistent with the current Windows version - Changed the optical CD/DVD/BD test so files should be minimally cached by the operating system during testing (previous versions resulted in much higher than expected read/verify speeds) - Increased max limit for Memory test in 64bit version to 256GB and increased the maximum amount locked for testing to 97% of free RAM - Changed behaviour of -M (show machine ID and notes entry) command line parameter when used with -R (auto-start tests) so the tests will not execute until the machine ID and notes dialog is closed - Added ext4 support for disk test - Added test certificate option to logging and HTML template file to the download package - Added �Test all hard disk� option to test configuration options in GUI version and new TestAllDisks option in command line config - Fixed a bug where the serial port test was not starting correctly in some distributions of linux - Fixed a bug in the USB test where a batch of recent USB2 test plugs were not correctly recognised by BurnInTest - Fixed a bug in the CD "Data read and verify" test where the test could freeze during the checksum creation if it encountered a 0 length file - Fixed a bug where when exiting from a script BurnInTest was not returning the correct error/success code - Changed how BiT detects the IP address for a network card to take into account aliased entries, eg when using an IPv6 and an IPv4 address with an aliased entry for the same network card, originally BiT would not pick up the IPv4 address from the alias BurnInTest v2.0 (1006) Linux 10 July 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added NTFS to the list of recognised partition types for the disk test, please note that some Linux distribution might not support NTFS or writing to NTFS so the test will not be able to run unless the Linux distribution support read/write for NTFS (for example those that use ntfs-3g) - Added -K command line option to keep disk test data files on disk when an error occurs (rather than delete them), best used with the "Stop on error" option - Added extra information to trace level 1 logging when a disk verification error is detected - Removed disks from the disk test selection when using aufs/unionfs, so BurnInTest won't select these virtual partitions for the disk test by default in live environments - Fixed a bug where the CD/DVD test could generate a checksum error after the test had finished when running the Data Checksum & Verify test and the test finished halfway through check summing a file - Fixed a bug where the memory test could be run in the wrong mode and not generate any operations during the test, due to a corrupt config setting - Corrected some output for trace level 2 of the disk test where some information was not being written out correctly BurnInTest v2.0 (1005) Linux 3 Jun 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug where running the CPU test on a machine with more than 16 CPUs could result in corruption of the results - Fixed a bug where a corrupt config file could cause odd test behaviour, for example an increasing cycle count but no increase in results or errors. BurnInTest was converting older versions of config files but not flagging them as new, causing them to be converted again next run and therfore corrupting it. BurnInTest v2.0 (1004) Linux 24th Apr 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Removed the 2GB file limit for the disk test on 64bit versions - Fixed a bug where multiples warnings about having a floppy disk in the drive could be displayed when testing a floppy drive and multiple disk partitions - Fixed a bug where opening the test preferences window and starting the tests could add the USB test to the log file even if it wasn't selected to run in the duty cycle / test selection options. - Removed CD drives from being listed in the disk test preferences - Increased number of disk tests that can be run from 20 to 40 - Lowered minimum duty cycle for network test, when set to 1 will send ~1 packet / second - Added -M command line option to display Machine ID and Notes dialog when BurnInTest is started (GUI version only) - Added scrolling in command line version, use up arrow and down arrow to scroll through the displayed test results in some display areas BurnInTest v2.0 (1003) Linux 27th Feb 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug where some keys did not register correctly in the 64bit build BurnInTest v2.0 (1002) Linux 11th Feb 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added vmhgfs to the list of partitions types BurnInTest will recognise and display in the Disk tab - Fixed a bug where the Pre-Test option to hide/display the warning dialog had the opposite values - Fixed a bug where CD's mounted at certain points might not be recognised as a CD drive and not appear in the CD-RW/DVD tab - Fixed a bug in the memory test where the cycles count was incresed after the test was flagged to finish, making the final cycle count 1 higher than expected - Fixed a bug in the memory test where the One's pattern could sometimes be skipped when cycling through all test patterns - Fixed a bug in the command line version where the serial test could display the wrong operations count on the summary screen if there was a disk test running at the same time - Fixed a bug with the logging where RAW disk tests could log 0 operations in the command line version - Fixed a bug with matching network cards to their IP if each network card isn't connected or doesn't have a current IP - Fixed a bug where BurnInTest could exit if the disk test tried to create a test file bigger than 2GB. BurnInTest v2.0 (1001) Linux 10th Dec 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed a bug in the random seeking disk test where the same block could be read/written several times in a row instead of another random block - Fixed a bug in the random seeking disk test where a read verify error could occur, more likely to happen in small partitions (<50mb) - Fixed a bug with the scripting where multiple instances of the same test could be launched - Fixed a bug with the scripting where a segfault could occur when using logging - Fixed a bug with key entry where extra spaces before/after user name were not being ignored and causing some users name / key pairs to fail validation - Fixed a bug where BurnInTest would not launch on SUSE11 - Removed some warning and message dialogs from the GUI version when running a script BurnInTest v2.0 (1000) Linux 19th Nov 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Converted help file to browser based html format Added support for reiserfs and XFS in disk test (previously these were being ignored) and ext4 Added -F font size command line parameter Added -D duration (minutes) command line parameter Added -X duration (cycles) command line parameter Added -S script command line paramter Added -p command line parameter to command line version, allows update interval to be set Added -d command line parameter, sets debug mode and creates debug.log file Added command line parameters to command line version to match Added USB2 loopback test for use with Passmark USB plugs Removed the default behaviour of BurnInTest to create a debug log and print debug information which reduces load times, on some systems this was the cause of a long pause when starting BurnInTest. Debug mode can be entered by using the -d command line parameter. Added scripting - In command line version use command line flag - GUI version new menu item under Test menu Memory Test - Improved memory test execution speed significantly - Added option for memory test to select test pattern Disk Test: - Added ability to test hard disks that are un-partitioned (Raw hard disk test) - Changed disk test window design, added total drive capacity - Changed references of MBytes to MB - Added ability to display GB instead of MB when a drive is greater than 1 GB - Tweaked hard disk duty cycle effect so effect is more linear, decreasing by a small amount from 100 will no longer result in a drastic cut to the speed of the test Network Test: - Increases number of test IP slots to 6 - Added option "Test All NICs" to bind each network card to an entered IP - Tweaked network duty cycle effect so effect is more linear, decreasing by a small amount from 100 will no longer result in a drastic cut to the speed of the test - Changed MB sent/received to packets to give a clearer picture of how many packets are being sent/received - Changed flow rate MB/S to packets/s - Network test name will now include which eth device is being tested Bug Fixes - Fixed a bug where tests could not automatically stop after a certain set amount of cycles when running the CPU test on multi core cpus - Fixed a bug with network test errors not displaying correctly - Fixed a bug with the 2D graphics test where the total operations count was incorrect and being inflated each cycle resulting in a higher operations count than there actually were - Fixed a bug with command line version of disk test when testing multiple devices if the underlying device block size differed the available and total space counts could be calculated wrong and could lead to the disk test causing a "Device Full" error rather than detecting when the device was running out of space and cleaning up files BurnInTest v1.0 (1007) Linux 04th Oct 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Hang reported when running 2D Graphics test, resulting in 2D Graphics thread and main thread hanging. All windows will not being updated (grayed out) and remaining threads continue to run and needs to be killed. This version should fix this issue. 2. Fixed bug where number of CPU is not reported right. 3. Limit maximum file size of Disk test to 2GB. 4. Fixed a bug in Memory test whereby if your attempted test buffer size is less than 128MB, memory test does not run. 5. If RTS/CTS is disabled, hardware flow control will not be turned on in Serial Port testing. BurnInTest v1.0 (1006) Linux 05th July 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Removed paintEvent function from 2DGraphicsTest. Function is not in used but is being called everytime the widget needs to paint itself. 2. Removed a while loop in bitmainapp.cpp, whereby it is calling Sleep and processEvent for 1 sec once memory test thread is created. 3. We now compute parameter for OpenGL redraw outside of the paintGL function. Previously, if user were to drag a window over the Open GL widget (window), you will see a "speed-up" effect whereby the spheres will be moving faster. This is now no longer the case. 4. Commented InitSignalHandling() from InitEnv_Main(). 5. We show() newly created child test window before we create the thread for the test (Before, we show() after the thread creation). 6. Re-implemented main thread's paintEvent(). Previously, it is checking to see which thread is suppose to run and then updating each test window. This is a bug because suppose only 1 thread has been created so far (and 5 threads are suppose to run), and system wants to update the main window, it will attempt to update a 5 child windows even though only the 1st window has been created. Individual child window is now being updated outside the paintEvent function. BurnInTest v1.0 (1005) Linux 26th Apr 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Corrected bug whereby the 2D Graphics Test is updating its windows (window->update()) from the main GUI thread! 2. Added optional argument for -R option. -R: optional argument Auto-start after delay_msecs. Minimum (and default) is 3000, i.e. 3 secs. If you specify anything less than 3000 msecs, it will default to 3000 msecs. Example: ./burnintest -R 10000 Auto-start after 10 secs ./burnintest -R Auto-start after 3 secs (default) BurnInTest v1.0 (1004) Linux 03rd Mar 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Changed behaviour of how burnintest reports devices. Before, it attempts to parse the mount point and the mount name to try and extract the last token after "/". Example, if it is mounted as "/dev/fd0" at "/media/floppy", burnintest reports it as Media floppy [fd0]. It now reports the full path, i.e. Media (/media/floppy) [/dev/fd0]. There is no gurantee that the monunt point or mount name has a "/" in its path. 2. Added "-R" (or "--autostart") and "-C" (or "--config") command line option. -R: (no argument) Auto start without needing to press "Start Test". -C: (argument needed) Determines which config file to use. Example: burnintest -R -C testall.cfg burnintest --autostart --config=testall.cfg 3. Removed "-d" (or "--debugmode") option. "debug.log" is always created in executable's directory for debugging purposes. If there is no write permission in executable's directory, an error prompt will be displayed (instead of segfault). BurnInTest v1.0 (1003) Linux 09th Feb 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Changed default settings for Serial Test. Default speed is now 9600baud and default timeout is 3500 ms. 2. Changed default settings for Network Test. Default error mode is now by ratio. 3. Standardized data type used for RAM. 4. Added glFlush in OpenGL test to force execution of OpenGL commands in finite time. 5. Fixed Pre-Test warning that prompts for Serial Loopback Plugs to be attached to test unit even though it is a "Detect Only" test. 6. Added texture to 3D Graphics' Spheres. 7. Adjusted material properties and lighting to enhance shadows on spheres for 3D Graphics Test. 8. Changed step size for displacement and rotation so spheres move faster in OpenGL Test. 9. Light source is now rotated to enhance effects. 10. Fixed bug in Preferences: CD-RW/DVD whereby even if a CD/DVD drive is not tested, it will appear in the main window (not suppose to). 11. Put in extra trace logging for memory test. 12. Put in extra debug logging for memory reporting and system resource limits during startup. 13. Memory test now probes available physical RAM as well as available high RAM. BurnInTest v1.0 (1002) Linux -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Released BurnInTest for Linux Version 1.0 (build 1002) 2. Removes excessive debug messages. BurnInTest v1.0b2 (1001) Linux -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Included collect application to help collect debug log for start-up errors. 2. Fixed bug in Disk Test where files are not deleted properly after test finished. 3. #include instead of 4. Added "Thank you" dialog once user enter correct username/key. 5. Fixed negative cycle number for serial detect test. 6. Fixed floppies failing because of limited number of files at root directory of floppy. 7. Added build date/time in -v option 8. Added Linux Distribution name in system header log...whatever appear in your login screen will be here. 9. Fixed bug whereby accumulate log and machine id files were saved in current working directory, which may or may not be the application's directory. 10. Fixed bug where in SUSE 10.0, "Clear all results" only clear if "No" was clicked. 11. Synchronized icons with Performance Test as much as possible. BurnInTest v1.0b1 (1000) Linux -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Included "LastUsed.cfg" configuration file that will load the default preferences. Note that previous configuration files are not compatible with this version. BurnInTest Linux's config file have header "BITCFGL" to check for incompatibility between Windows and Linux version. 2. As this is a beta version, debug mode is used by default when you launch the application by double-clicking or when running in terminal with no arguments. A file "debug.log" will be created in the destination_folder Again, please make sure you have read/write permission for the destination folder. 3. Clean up reporting of hard-disks and cd/floppy drives with tested systems. If your system is not reporting it's peripherals right (or if you think it is not reporting right), please e-mail to help@passmark.com. 4. Added Pre-Test preferences that enable you to disable "Warning" dialog everytime we start a test. 5. When viewing log from "View Event Log" menu, new log entries will be updated. 6. Added "Save Test Log" option to save as text file or html file. 7. Updated "BITErrorClassification.txt", synchronized with Windows version, corrected typo, updated to user-oriented error messages. 8. Fixed bug in CDROM error message reporting. 9. Updated costs of software in Welcome Window to US$49. "Order Online Now" redirects to PassMark's sales site. 10. Corrected bug where user enters 0.x value for Auto-Stop time and it becomes 0. 11. Disk Test's "Speed" value is now updated. 12. Added boundary values checking for preferences when user clicks "OK". 13. Updated auto-scrolling of log viewing when new entry is added. 14. Load/Save config cleaned up. 15. Auto-adjust column width for last error string in main test window. 16. Machine ID, serial and notes now truncates to fixed crashes of long string. 17. Fixed truncation of "HTML" in Preferences:Logging. 18. Synchronized system info reporting between HTML and ASCII log (as well as correct reporting in HTML format for video info). 19. "debug.log" dumps packages information for system including kde versions, gcc versions and qt versions. It also dumps various crticial files and command line tools that system info is collected. Files: a) /etc/fstab: cdroms, floppies and potential mount points for file-systems b) /etc/mtab: mounted medias and file-systems c) /etc/x11/xorg.conf: video card info d) /proc/cpuinfo: cpu speed, cache size, etc Tools: e) xdpyinfo: display info f) glxinfo: openGL capabilities g) printenv: collecting environment variables to understand various unix platforms h) uname -a: host and system build info 20. Fixed bug where 2 CDROMs does not quite set their preferences right from "Test Preferences:CDROM". 21. Removed unneccessary blank lines in the logs. 22. Fixed bug where load/save config files are not behaving quite as planned. 23. Added -v option to display BurnInTest for Linux's version. Release BIT_Linux_v0.9b2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Updated key.dat file to fix installation time issue. Installation time will now be the first launch of the app. 2. Included debug option. To enable debug mode, launch application with: # ./BIT_Linux --debugmode (that is, on the command line, type in ./BIT_Linux --debugmode) A file called "debug.log" will be output to collect any start-up errors. Release BIT_Linux_v0.9b1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Released for initial testing. 2. Tests include: - Memory - Disks - Network - 2D Graphics - 3D Graphics (Open GL) - Serial Port - Parallel Port - CD-ROM/DVD - CPU-Maths Documentation ============= All the documentation is included in HTML format in the help directory in the 32bit and 64bit folders. It can be accessed from the help menu in the GUI version. Support ======= For technical support, questions, suggestions, please check the help file for our email address or visit our web page at http://www.passmark.com FAQs ======= Visit our web page at http://www.passmark.com/support/bitlinux_faq.htm for the BurnInTest Linux FAQ page. Ordering / Registration ======================= All the details are in the help file documentation or you can visit our sales information page http://www.passmark.com/sales Compatibility issues with the BurnInTest Linux =========================================================== You need to have administrator privileges to run the following test: 1. Serial Port Test: Linux character devices are usually root access only. For this test, we might be accessing /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS63 depending on your configuration. 2. Parallel Port Test: Root access is required to access memory location for the parallel ports. (lp0 @ 0x378, p1 @ 0x278 or lp2 @ 0x3BC) 3. Memory Test: As we are locking physical memory to prevent caching, root access is needed to call this function. 4. Network Test: Root access is required to create raw sockets for the address family AF_INET. Enjoy.. The PassMark Development team