I would suggest your choice of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) projects at boinc.berkeley.edu . In my experience, they are extremely cpu bound so will test if your fans a spinning and blowing freely. You might also discover a new galaxy, or something. -- Pat On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> About a week after it arrives, I will be shipping ebay-purchased > laptop to a friend out of the country. Once shipped, it will be > difficult to maintain. I've got the hard drive (new WD5000BEVT, > good reviews on newegg and amazon) , battery, and a few other > removables that will go on it, and I am testing them now, in a > different laptop. > > I installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat (10.04LTS Lucid had > some issues, sigh). I added some plausible packages: bonnie, > ctcs, phoronix, stress, stressapptest, and computertemp to make > sure the laptop doesn't cook too much. > > Right now, I am running "bonnie" on the hard drive, for a day > or two. When the target laptop arrives, I will load the > removables on it and use one or two of the test packages. I > have not used them before. Free Geek uses "stress" for a few > minutes on their laptop. Rather than a quick but possibly > damaging test, I would rather run something moderately > stressful for days. > > Any suggestions? > > Keith > > PS: I don't want to repeatedly compile X - no good diagnostics! > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
