[discuss] diskscan: unable to get disk geometry

2021-04-06 Thread Kent Watsen
After having run `smartctl` short and long tests, I want to do a destructive write/read test that further exercises the HBAs, cables, cooling, and what not. Looking for an equivalent to `badblocks`, which many online guides point to, I found `diskscan`, which works great on my SSDs, but throws a

Re: [discuss] CPU stress test for Illumos/OmniOS?

2021-04-06 Thread Kent Watsen
>> Any other options folks are using? Perhaps a coin miner, video transcoder, >> or a raytracer? > > You might look at: > >https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng > > It builds with a simple "gmake" for me on OmniOS, at least. There are > some pretty extensive materials describing how t