Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:18:41 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Chris, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [removed ports] sysutils/cpuburn Message-ID: <80428c551054d45fb8717e5643867307@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <20111115150735.GA96251@azathoth.lan> References: <4EC2786E.5060907@FreeBSD.org> <20111115150735.GA96251@azathoth.lan>
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On 15.11.2011 16:07, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:34:22PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> Does anyone know good any alternative(s) for cpuburn? >> If not, then I would like to request that this port be restored. >> I am prepared to be designated as its maintainer and to host its >> distfile (via my >> FreeBSD account). >> >> Maintaining the port should be rather easy as it can not have any >> security issues >> by definition and at the moment there is no active upstream, so no >> code changes >> are expected. >> >> P.S. Sorry that I've missed its deprecation. I haven't noticed the >> activity until >> I needed to use it at yet another system. >> > > I often use sysutils/stress don't know if that fits your needs? I've just noticed that cpuburn is gone and stress is not an alternative for my task. Why? Because I use cpuburn to verify the undervolting capabilities of AMD cpus's for sysutils/cpupowerd which needs to explicitly hammer the CPU with MMX instructions and parallel with normal CPU instructions while lowering vcore. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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