[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>> Date: 2007/09/08 Sat PM 06:43:10 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...
> 
>> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> The machine ran like a pig when I first put Vista Business x64 [...]
>>                                              ^^^^^
>>
>> That's your problem, right there.
> 
> Well, sure, there is that, but this is orders of magnitude slower - not just 
> "not so peppy" - like Pentium 133 speeds (with a dual core Intel 3.0 GHz 
> CPU)...
> 
> I don't think that fine, slow-brewed bloated code from the great northwest 
> could slow the machine *that* much.


You could boot it from a Knoppix CD, then you ought to be able to find
LOTS of stuff to bang on it with.


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