From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 7:47:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prox.centtech.com (moat2.centtech.com [206.196.95.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F219137B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:47:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by prox.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id JAA04945; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:47:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sprint.centtech.com(10.177.173.31) by prox via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma004869; Fri, 15 Jun 01 09:47:02 -0500 Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13375; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:47:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3B2A1FE7.AD4875D0@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:47:03 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Cc: james@redlinenetworks.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Benchmarking/testing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Processors are typically put through a burn-in before leaving manufacturing.. There is no need to do burn ins, but there can be a need to do "QA" testing to "run the gamut" on the hardware to double check its reliability. As for performance, it does absolutely nothing.. Eric Peter wrote: > > On 06/14/2001 2:05:35 PM, James Penick is quoted as saying: > > >> . . .|What's a good solution for testing/burning in the CPU and Memory of a > >system? I've heard 'recompile the kernel' mentioned but that doesn't seem to > >efficient. Any other ideas? > > . > > I've heard of 'burning' in the car engine, but do you also > need to burn in the memory/cpu?? > > [This is the first time I've ever heard of somethign even close to > "burning" in the cpu/mem -- just curious]. > > Can someone also point me to a link/docs that show > performance/reliability of a cpu/mem that is > not "burned" in.....[if it is a good thing [tm] to burn-in cpu/mem] > > www.nul.cjb.net > www.FreeBSD.org > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology (512) 418-5792 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message