Re: CPU load testing
At 2002-05-11T23:43:31Z, Scott Henson <shenson2@sandm.hn.org> 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. Wouldn't a
better test be, say, a looped Quake timedemo in software-3D mode? Or
perhaps Seti-at-home (doesn't it use FP vs. integer math?) run multiple
times?
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Kirk Strauser
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