[geeks] Hmmm.. xterm versus Mac OS X Terminal.app

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Thu Feb 21 11:44:03 CST 2002


On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:18:43PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> > (Yes, believe it or not, there are legit ways to bring a system with 72 
> > procs to its knees.)
> 
> we use seti at home as a cpu stresstest here 8-)

That and linpack are popular. Seti is too polite, you should try the
"stress test" built into VTS.  That's a fun one.

Right now I'm stressing I/O on my lab E6000 by using fsck.  (Hell, it
works!)

_pete



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