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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:24:41
Message-Id: 200601200217.24995.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC by Nick Rout
1 On Friday 20 January 2006 02:01, Nick Rout wrote:
2 > Install gentoo and then compile kde/gnome/openoffice while playing three
3 > movies.
4 >
5
6
7 booom instand oom ;)
8
9 but compiling kde or ooo is a better ram test than memtest86, which is known
10 for false positive and not finding obvious errors.
11
12 cpubburn puts some stress onto cpu&northbridge.
13
14 For harddisks - dd if=something (like urandom) of=something else
15 bs=whatyouwant count=at least some gigabytes while smartmontools are
16 installed and smartd is running + copying around some big files.
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