[cobalt-users] Qube3 processor testing

["Paul Shuttleworth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

I have just been messing about with a Qube3 I bought. This had a K6-2-400Mhz
Processor dropped in it, although still running at 300Mhz! (he did say it
was much quicker with the new processor installed!!) I thought I would have
a play and see how far I could push this baby. I changed the multiplier to
run at 5* and now the 400Mhz processor is running happily at 500Mhz.

[root /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 5
model           : 8
model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping        : 12
cpu MHz         : 498.021
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips        : 992.87
temperature     : 21.5
system type     : Qube3

As you can see the temp is in the low 20 s, as the Qube unlike the Raq has a
large heatsink it seems to be quite happy. It has been running for --

processor       : 0
  8:08am  up 1 day,  9:08,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
49 processes: 48 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.3% user,  0.5% system,  0.0% nice, 99.0% idle
Mem:   257552K av,  240280K used,   17272K free,   51428K shrd,  169592K
buff
Swap:  131532K av,      76K used,  131456K free                   17804K
cached

So far the system has been stable, however as you can see the processor load
is very low.

Has anyone got a routine or command which will give a prolonged load on the
processor so that I can set this going and monitor load/temp to see how it
performs.

Cheers
Paul.