64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I'm a bit of a Moron when it comes to the newer 64 bit Dual-Core technology. Are there programs out there that can test this new machine (amd64 dualcore) to see if it is running up to par. That both CPUs are doing there thing under load before I put this server into service? And are

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/01/08 11:05, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, I'm a bit of a Moron when it comes to the newer 64 bit Dual-Core technology. Are there programs out there that can test this new machine (amd64 dualcore) to see if it is running up to par. That both CPUs are doing there thing under

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: What do you mean by up to par? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+par -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jeff Soules
What do you mean by up to par? http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+par I would venture to guess that we understand the expression, but just don't know what you're talking about. What specifically about the chip did you want to test? That it's operating at the advertised clock speed,

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jeff Soules wrote: What do you mean by up to par? http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+par I would venture to guess that we understand the expression, but just don't know what you're talking about. What specifically about the chip did you want to test? That

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:54:14AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jeff Soules wrote: What do you mean by up to par? http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+par I would venture to guess that we understand the expression, but just don't know what

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Account for Debian group mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to put the computer as a whole under a stress test, performance test. I can look at the /etc/dmesg and see that the CPS's are up and Possibly mprime's torture test? That's at mersenne.org. I've used

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those, of course, are cpu tests and don't really test out all the things in the machine, such as network, disk reads/writes etc. Another possibility is to run a script that continously compiles a recent linux kernel, using the

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrew Sackville-West: [...] Maybe you could just run multiple kernel compiles simultaneously, including one or two that are reading/writing to a network share and see what happens that way? To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation jobs

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote: Andrew Sackville-West: [...] Maybe you could just run multiple kernel compiles simultaneously, including one or two that are reading/writing to a network share and see what happens that way? To use all cores available when compiling a kernel,

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote: Andrew Sackville-West: [...] Maybe you could just run multiple kernel compiles simultaneously, including one or two that are reading/writing to a network share and see what happens that way? To use all cores available when compiling a kernel,

64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
Sorry, I meant to go to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM Subject: Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron To: Account for Debian group mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Account for Debian group mail

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't CC people unless requested. Thanks. Account for Debian group mail: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote: To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of cores

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Account for Debian group mail: Andrew Sackville-West: To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of cores you have. I looks like both CPUs are doing their thing on the