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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:22:05 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Better testing of hardware (was: Defective Read Hat)
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Hi!

> You will find that most Overlockers run their favorite game in a loop for 10
> or 20 minutes as the best test they have found.  This often does
> Video+Ram+CPU+Sound board (PCI) at full tilt. What is needed is a
> _standardized test_ that really goes after everything (including network).

You don't need to test network that much: if your network card garbles
packets under high load, it is ok. TCP checksums should catch that.

(OTOH, on really broken serial cable (no flow control and machines
definitely miss characters sometimes), I can occassionaly see
corruption even with TCP. Ouch.)
								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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