> 20 minutes or way longer One of my coworkers was working on a bug that only manifested itself after ~2 weeks of putting the system under continuous stress. B

> 20 minutes or way longer One of my coworkers was working on a bug that only manifested itself after ~2 weeks of putting the system under continuous stress. Bad times. Stress tests often seem to unearth strange bugs. Once when we used to sell boxes running a single-threaded real-time OS, the OS vendor gave us a separate machine that would sample the registers and memory of the box 10000 times a second (using jumper cables on the motherboard), in the hope that we would catch the exact state of the system as it crashed after days of stress testing. The sampler machine was a crazy overpowered beast of a machine with really high clock CPUs and oodles of RAM so it could dump as many samples as possible into a ring buffer in memory.