Re: stress testing

2023-05-31 Thread John Mellor
stress and stress-ng and the gui versions all do a pretty good job of heating up the cpu, and a marginal job of finding memory issues.  However, the rest of the motherboard and disks get almost nothing. On 2023-05-31 4:51 p.m., Geoffrey Leach wrote: In anticipation of the arrival of a new syst

Re: stress testing

2023-05-31 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Wed, 31 May 2023 17:01:15 -0400 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > $ dnf search stress > Fedora 38 OpenH264 (from Cisco) - x86_644.9 kB/s | 2.5 kB > 00:00 stress.x86_64 : A tool to put given subsystems under a > specified load stress-ng.x86_64 : Stress test a computer system in > various ways str

Re: stress testing

2023-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:51 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > In anticipation of the arrival of a new system, I was looking into the > availability of open-source stress testing tools. Turns out that there > is one in the Fedora distribution, aptly named "stress". What are you testing? > A web searc

Re: Stress-Testing.

2012-02-29 Thread Mark Liggett
I've had good testing success using the Phoronix test suite. It contains lots of tests that can exercise all hardware. For CPU stressing I tend to use stress2. Best of luck, M On 29 Feb 2012, at 14:32, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: > >> I know memtest is on Fedora. >> What a

Re: Stress-Testing.

2012-02-29 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Frank Murphy wrote: > I know memtest is on Fedora. > What about cpu tests? > Was goolging came up with cpuburn as per: > http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1/diagnose-hardware-problems-with-an-ubuntu-live-cd/ Frank, Repeatedly compiling the kernel is a good CPU test. Here are my notes: === st