On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 09:08:55PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | | At 2002-05-11T23:43:31Z, Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 16:37, Sven Hoexter wrote: | | >> I prefer cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null | | > Dont hose your system entropy. Try | > | > cat /dev/zero > /dev/null | > | > same result but you still have your entropy. | | Both of those would get the CPU nice and hot, but if I'm not mistaken, | neither one would really exercise the FPUs or memory busses.
Right. | Wouldn't a better test be, say, a looped Quake timedemo in | software-3D mode? This will likely test your video card, if you have a decent one (unlike mine). | Or perhaps Seti-at-home (doesn't it use FP vs. integer math?) run | multiple times? That sounds like a good idea. If you want to test the memory bus, use memtest86. It's designed for that :-). (or compile a kernel, that tends to identify bad memory when you see gcc segfault) -D -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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