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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:27:46 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [CURRENT]: weird memory/linker problem?
Message-ID:  <1403537266.20883.296.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20140623163115.03bdd675.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <20140622165639.17a1ba1e.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAJ-Vmok0Oh6XGe62acXE-82pTmEaouibd1GqDT0pCo8P6x6Hog@mail.gmail.com> <20140623163115.03bdd675.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 16:31 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
> I'm out of ideas. Is there a way to stress test the CPU and memory
> system to check
> whether RAM, the CPU itself and, as an additional possibility, the
> disk i/o controller
> (Intel ICH10)?
> 
> Thanks for your patience,

A really good tool for stress-testing a system is ports/math/mprime.  It
will find memory and cpu errors that memtest86 and other tools
completely overlook.  Run one copy per cpu, something like this:

for i in $(jot $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) 0) ; do
    sleep $((i * 2)) && mprime -t -a$i >/tmp/mprime$i.log &
done

Many overclockers use this to ensure the system is stable with the OC
settings.  If your system can run a copy of mprime per cpu continuously
for 24 hours the hardware is fine.

-- Ian





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