Goto freshmeat, get lucifer, do the stuff it has in the readme file
especially the disk test, we all seem able to pass the cpu test, but the
disk access is whats causing hangups for most of us...
Mike
On Fri,
17 Mar 2000, Fulton CR (Charles) wrote:
> I'm not sure if you have posted this yet or not.. but would you mind posting
> all of your "stress test" strategies? I would be happy to run through them
> this weekend and to test my board better.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Charlie.
>
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> > From: Valentijn Sessink[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards
> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 10:12 AM
> > To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards
> > Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Re: Details
> >
> > Chris Chiappa wrote:
> >
> >
> > > We're starting to go through the same stuff we did months ago: "SCSI vs
> > IDE"
> > > "Powersupplies" etc. Please read the FAQ I've drawn up at
> >
> > I know. So I don't have extra cooling, I dont' have a 300W powersupply.
> > However, there are a couple of instances where a large disk IO on one
> > plus some activity on the other processor makes the thing crash. Be it
> > SCSI or IDE. (Had a couple of reports on SCSI bus resetting). I *also*
> > saw a kernel mailing list message talking about a Dell SMP box that
> > crashed... so maybe it is not the BP6 after all. Remember that there are
> > many more Linux hackers with a BP6 than there are with other
> > multiprocessor boxes, so any SMP error will be very BP6 biased...
> >
> > The stress testing so far seems mostly kernel compilations or processor
> > burn in tests; I had the box running kernel compile for 8 hours, and it
> > kept running. I also had a load 80 and it kept running. However, large
> > disk IO operations seem to make it crash.
> >
> > Also, I'd still like to know about the "nosmp" option - anyone have the
> > same results, apart from the reports so far?
> >
> > V.
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