From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 17: 4:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941E514A2F for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:04:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp70.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.70]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA07747; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:00:15 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Christopher Palmer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Computer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What, exactly, is 'burning in' a computer, and what is involved in doing > it? I've heard this term before, and I understand that is has something to > do with testing all the components in their real-world configuration, but > not much else. Usually it's a piece of software designed to run a computer at it's maximum potential. Statistically computer hardware goes bad within the first three months of usage. Burn in software tries to put 3 months of use on all pieces of the hardware, hopefully catching any problems. BTW, we use to do 20 makeworlds in a row for this. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message