Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:22:35 -0400 From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about healthd and mprime Message-ID: <8cb6106e0808071322o17271fe9oefe1af2bf54fe931@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <32214.1218139739@tristatelogic.com> References: <32214.1218139739@tristatelogic.com>
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> OK, so _now_ I've looked around and found out that a lot of folks > these days heat up their CPUs by running the "mprime" thingy. Swell. > But I don't know diddly poo about this program. So can somebody please > tell me the set of "best" command line options for the thing if your > only goal is to stress your CPU? > > Thanks in advance. If you just want to heat up your CPU, this should suffice: yes > /dev/null & Once for each CPU/core. mprime is useful to stress test the cores, looking for a situation where the core fails. This can cause odd system problems, and not necessarily a crash or lock up. But in terms of just heating the cores up, "yes" should do the trick. Josh
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