Gary Kline wrote on Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 08:31:43PM -0800: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:20:40PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > For hardware testing, the best is ports/math/mprime > > > > In combination with memtest86, because mprime doesn't sweep all RAM. > > > > If you have several processors, be sure to run several instances of > > mprime (requires copying the whole mprime directory). > > > > Martin > > -- > > Ah, thanks for the tip on mprime. Would the odds of touch more > RAM improve if I ran several nstatiations of mprime at once, > perhaps each differently nice'd?
No, prime is best used with nothing else interrupting it, not even switches to other instances of itself. One mprime per CPU. It is a very tightly written assembly program which "cooks" the CPU pretty nicely in torture mode (start with -t). Remember this is hardware test only, it does nothing about OS hickups. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"