Ultimate Boot CD

I agree with delicate: the best solution is logging onto another device that keeps the results after a crash. 8) That's why I suggested a small serial port program that could talk to another computer giving many possibilities there. The problem is the fact that recent MB don't have a serial port any...

I guess we could just change the "mprime" script to do that: ! NOT TESTED YET ! #!/bin/sh # # Wrapper for the Mersenne Prime Torture test (mprime) # ==================================================== # # 'mprime' is a wrapper that automaticly detects the number of CPUs so they can be # s...

for blanking screen, it's not hard and setterm is useless:

http://alexis.m2osw.com/console.html

before launching MPrime, just add:

little busybox script... OK it's very basic but just cd /tmp cat > myscript while true; do cat /proc/uptime top -n2 -d15 > /dev/null done then /bin/sh myscript and uptime is displayed every 15s (no "sleep" so I use "top" instead and discard the result) sorry I'm a bit rusted with...

CPU stress was created to stress CPU, ok? Why ? Usually to test system stability, especially when overclocking ? Noob overclockers just select highest CPU voltage they think is reasonnable and then increase FSB (or QPI...) until the system is obviously unstable. Then they reduce the speed a bit and ...

I did a few tests and it seems I need at least 17m for my Q6600 quadcore

see my reply on the post concerning mprime
to sum up it doesn't work on quad core

on a dual core I think mprime works but on a quad core I just installed /tmp is too small and I have to remount after each boot
that's not very nice
It would be nice to increase tmp in the image