> I haven't tried it yet,
> but I believe that gentoo can do pretty much everything automatically
> via cross compile, so if you had an x86 gentoo install, you should be
> able to build whatever you want for alpha. (Maybe when gabe gets some
> free time, he can look into that. or when I do.)
>
> I am looking for something else that could be used to place a load just on
> the CPU and stress the rest of the node very little. On real nodes I use the
> complier gcc or g++ to compile a small program continuously. To increase the
> CPU load I submit multiple instances of this script (using
Are there any applications or scripts that already exist in the standard M5
install that allows the user to create a load on the CPU only? I am familiar
with using the SurgeSpecweb application to place a load on a server by having
the client initiate more connections, but this stresses other par
