hi ya alex
- use a better nic card...
- tulip driver is relatively good and yet cheap
( netgear FA310TX - $15 range )
- some nic drivers hang under heavy network traffic
- get a better mb...
- asus, intel, supermicro, tyan...
( i (personally) avoid using iwill, gigabit, fic, msi, ...
- bp6 is notorius for "linux problems"
- asus cusi-630tx is $65 range.. for up to p3-1.2G
- dont use any of the onboard "raid" controllers
( none of um really works all that well - if at all )
- if you have power savings enabled in the bios...
- turn it off in the bios... for testing the "hanging"
- simple load test ...
-- fire off multiple copies of the script..
- whacky code - for the fun of it -
while ( 1 ) {
"pass += 1" > /tmp/count.$$.log
date
ls -la / | sum
cd /usr/local/src/linux ; make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo
}
#
# watch the cpu temperature too
# watch the load w/ top, ntop, etc...
#
have fun
alvin
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good package or a good way to CPU load test my debian
> box? (I have Potato 2.2r6). My box keeps freezing up, it seems to always
> happen
> when the network card is busy (copying files mainly). But it could be just the
> CPU load which is causing it, which is why I want to take the net card down
> and
> try a high CPU load for a while....
>
> (My motherboard is an Abit BP6 which is famously unstable with linux, but I
> have updated the bios to a new version which apparently solves the instability
> problem in most cases.....)
>
> thanks!
> alex
>
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