cpuburn for AMD Opteron 6136

I need to check a CPU on an Ubuntu 10.04 machine for hardware problems, and I'd like to try cpuburn. Would I used burnK7 for that? If I understand correctly, burnMMX tests cache/memory interfaces, but not the CPU more generally. Thanks for any suggestions. Chuck -- ubuntu-server mailing list

Upgrading linux-image packages beyond available linux-server version

I have a 10.04 server which is running the 2.6.32.33.39 version of the linux-server package. This seems to be the highest candidate for my release: $ apt-cache policy linux-server linux-server: Installed: 2.6.32.33.39 Candidate: 2.6.32.33.39 Version table: *** 2.6.32.33.39 0 500 h

Looking for resources on system performance monitoring & tuning

I'm the de facto admin for 32-core research server running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on Dell hardware. 'uname -a' gives Linux UTx 2.6.32-33-server #72-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 21:21:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux An external collaborator is running a long-running multi-threaded CPU-intensive