On Monday 01 July 2002 09:04 pm, bascule wrote: > reading the home page it seems that it is primarily a cpu loader, > while i will try this the cpu/mobo combo in my box are a known > entity as they were the basis of my main box before i upgraded just > recently, i used extraneous hardware to make up a new box and i'm > wondering if there isn't something amiss with say, the disks or > something > > bascule
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 2:16 am, you wrote: > > Cpuburn loads the whole system to the max > > > > http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ It's not a cpu loader, no more than memtest86 is just a ram tester. There's no way for any software program to separate the cpu/cache/ram subsystem. If a system can run cpuburn (eg, 'burnk7' for an Athlon) for a hour without problems, then every bit of hardware on the motherboard, soldered in or installed (ie, cpu, ram, etc.), and probly the PSU too, is in fine shape. Hardware that can breeze by memtest86, might not pass cpuburn. It's an old overclocker's tool to test for stability, been around for years. As to disks, I dunno, maybe 'bonnie' (rpm is on your Cd's) or zipping up huge tar files, moving them across ide channels? When all the hoop'la about VIA IDE problems surfaced over a year ago, I made a ~700mb zip file and moved it cross ide several times checking the md5sum and contents (unzipping) after each transfer (no problems). Bet'ya Civileme knows how to test the pci bus/ harddrives ;> Take a look on http://www.civileme.com/ under 'crashtesting...' As far as 'nopentium' goes, I suspect (but don't know) this is already covered (ie, default to 4k pages) in the recent kernels. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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