On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:06:52AM -0800, James Long wrote:
A buildworld is indeed an excellent test of memory, CPU, drives
and cabling.
The memory tester is sysutils/memtest.
It's not a very scientific test, but one thing I do is a
make -j8 buildworld whilst I do a large tar operation,
A buildworld is indeed an excellent test of memory, CPU, drives
and cabling.
The memory tester is sysutils/memtest.
It's not a very scientific test, but one thing I do is a
make -j8 buildworld whilst I do a large tar operation,
optionally with compression. Just anecdotally it appears
that tar
Folks,
When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff
it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and
other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of
pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator
that the
Gary Kline wrote:
Folks,
When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff
it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and
other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of
pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator
that the HW
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:11:31AM +, Tofik Suleymanov wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
Folks,
When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff
it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and
other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of
Gary Kline wrote:
Folks,
When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged in stuff
it took several days of figuring out what benchmark and
other utilities to run to stress it. After a few weeks of
pushing the load to 70+, the burning-in was a fair indicator
that the HW
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
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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
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
on the
parameters
you put into it.
Ted
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Folks,
When I bought this bare-bones box and plugged
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