Software options to test load capabilities of a 030 CPU on TF536

[Danoo]

Hi all,
Besides using Frontier's opening sequence what are some other good software packages that give the 030 a real good workout
Just trying to gauge the load capabilities of a few different rated CPUs.

[supaduper]

Try Nemac IV, on loop thats what I use to sort the wheat from the chaff

[Danoo]

Try Nemac IV, on loop thats what I use to sort the wheat from the chaff

Thanks, will give it a whirl and see if any give up the ghost

[pipper]

Battle Chess gets the CPU quite toasty. To stress the CPU you’ll want to use software that interacts with the chipset very little, so the TF has little time to step down to 7MHz.
I guess, using Lha on many big files would be a good test, too, to stress CPU and IDE.

[Danoo]

Battle Chess gets the CPU quite toasty. To stress the CPU you’ll want to use software that interacts with the chipset very little, so the TF has little time to step down to 7MHz.
I guess, using Lha on many big files would be a good test, too, to stress CPU and IDE.

Thanks, some more options to try, I have a few 33B's a couple of 40B's and about half a dozen 50C's. Expect all the 50's will measure up, but who knows for the rest

[richx]

I’ve found lha creating archives in RAM: to be a good test, with lha freezing or causing reboot if the 030 can’t handle the speed.

I created a POVRay 3.1 test script earlier this year while testing the 68040-to-68060 adapter respin to give the 060 FPU a good workout and to have verifiable results. See attached for a no-FPU version using POVRay 3.0, this should work on 020+ without FPU, takes about 2 hours on TF536 to render all the scenes. The script performs an md5sum on the rendered files at the end to verify results, if the system does not crash before.

These tests failed on a couple of 95 RP33Bs that appeared to run Frontier fine (for at least 20-30 minutes). A little air on one of the RP33Bs bringing the temp down from 103F to 92F (ambient 73F) helped a lot, but the fish13 scene still got it..

[dalek]

See attached for a no-FPU version using POVRay 3.0, this should work on 020+ without FPU, takes about 2 hours on TF536 to render all the scenes. The script performs an md5sum on the rendered files at the end to verify results, if the system does not crash before. and you can find here

Hey - neat idea - I'd like to try your script but can't seem to find it?

[richx]

MODS, not sure what's going on with valeraduk 2 posts above, looks like spam to me, can you please delete.

@dalek Can you edit/delete your quote so people don't click on that URL, I attached the test script in my original message above.

[dalek]

weird - I don't usually fall for spam Thanks richx