Intel Atom D510MO performance issue

2010-02-25 Thread Will Storey
Hi, I was attempting to test temperatures under load by running cat /dev/urandom file and I thought my system had crashed. Instantly when this command begins the system becomes very unresponsive. All input over ssh and keyboard attached to the machine has seemingly varying, but significant,

Re: Intel Atom D510MO performance issue

2010-02-25 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Post output of 'vmstat -i' and read this thread http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=126203835608528w=2 On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Will Storey wsto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was attempting to test temperatures under load by running cat /dev/urandom file and I thought my system had

Re: Intel Atom D510MO performance issue

2010-02-25 Thread Thomas Pfaff
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:47:24 -0800 Will Storey wsto...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how relevant this is, but the top output seems to indicate something: Memory: Real: 10M/137M act/tot Free: 845M Swap: 0K/2051M used/tot PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIMECPU

Re: Intel Atom D510MO performance issue

2010-02-25 Thread Noah McNallie
On 02/25/2010 06:47 AM, Will Storey wrote: Hi, I was attempting to test temperatures under load by running cat /dev/urandom file and I thought my system had crashed. Instantly when this command begins the system becomes very unresponsive. All input over ssh and keyboard attached to the machine

Re: Intel Atom D510MO performance issue

2010-02-25 Thread Ted Unangst
Use arandom. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Will Storey wsto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was attempting to test temperatures under load by running cat /dev/urandom file and I thought my system had crashed. Instantly when this command begins the system becomes very unresponsive. All input