On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a server, with an Intel DG35EC motherboard, Q9300 CPU, 8GB >> Kingston DDRII RAM which can't take a lot of load. I have 4 XEN VPS's >> on there, which doesn't consume more than 4GBM RAM at this stage. Yet, >> the machine sky rockets at some times. I've moved the XEN VPS's to >> another server, with 4GM RAM, and it doesn't cause the same problems. >> >> So, apart from memtest86 how else can I stress test the server to find >> out what the problem is? >> > > > 4 instances of mprime (www.mersenne.org), running the torture test, each set > to affinity on a different CPU. > > and, next time get a real server board with ECC. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Next time I won't ask, don't worry -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers