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General Schvantzkoph...

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:19 am

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I've released sys_basher as an RPM for Fedora 10, Fedora 11 and RHEL 5
and clones. The RPMS are available in the updates testing repos for F10
and F11, it should be available in the EPEL testing repos for
RHEL5,CentOS5 and SL5 shortly.

sys_basher is a multithreaded hardware stress tester. It tests the CPU,
memory and disk IO. It's designed to put the maximum stress on a system.
The sys_basher memory tests are much better than those in Memtest86+. I
just finished putting together a new iCore7 system that uses 6 DDR3-1600
DIMMs. I have one DIMM that is flaky at the default CAS settings,
sys_basher found the problem immediately, memtest86 ran four hours
without finding it. I was able to fix my problem by adding a cycle to the
CAS latency in the BIOS, sys_basher confirmed that the problem was fixed.

I wrote sys_basher as an aid for overclocking, I use it to find the
maximum limits for each system, but it useful for anyone who wants to
determine if their system is reliable. Sys_basher also does low level
benchmarking for memory bandwidth (at all levels of the memory
hierarchy), integer and floating point performance and disk bandwidth.
The results are presented in a report file and in a series of .csv files
that can be loaded into a spreadsheet.

http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/

Sheridan Hutchinson...

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:25 pm

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General Schvantzkoph wrote:

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There is definitely room in the market for this kind of software. If I
were you, I would try and go to the forums for SystemRescueCD
http://www.sysresccd.org/ and argue the merits of trying to get it included.

If you can get them to carry it you'll get a lot of free interest in it,
and hopefully some patches if your lucky ;)

All the best.

--
Regards,
Sheridan Hutchinson
sheridan at (no spam) shezza.org

General Schvantzkoph...

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:10 pm

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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:25:42 +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:

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General Schvantzkoph wrote:
I've released sys_basher as an RPM for Fedora 10, Fedora 11 and RHEL 5
and clones. The RPMS are available in the updates testing repos for F10
and F11, it should be available in the EPEL testing repos for
RHEL5,CentOS5 and SL5 shortly.

There is definitely room in the market for this kind of software. If I
were you, I would try and go to the forums for SystemRescueCD
http://www.sysresccd.org/ and argue the merits of trying to get it
included.

If you can get them to carry it you'll get a lot of free interest in it,
and hopefully some patches if your lucky ;)

All the best.

That's a good idea, I've posted a message on their contributions forum.

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