Ubuntu Stress test for whole system - Recomendation Please...

[Memmento Mori]

Dear Ladies and Gents!

 

Hope your having a good start in the week.

 

I was hoping to find here any recomandation for UBUNTU stress test and stability testing (CPU/GPU/RAM - best all togehter...).... Please share your recomendation, experience, thoughts.

 

So far i just found the following:

 

 

1, Prime 95 CPU and DIMMS

2, Furemark for GPU

3, Passmark BurnInTest - is it worth the money? 

 

Any other options?

 

Thank you very much!

 

[ENTERPRISE]

9 hours ago, Memmento Mori said:

Dear Ladies and Gents!

 

Hope your having a good start in the week.

 

I was hoping to find here any recomandation for UBUNTU stress test and stability testing (CPU/GPU/RAM - best all togehter...).... Please share your recomendation, experience, thoughts.

 

So far i just found the following:

 

 

1, Prime 95 CPU and DIMMS

2, Furemark for GPU

3, Passmark BurnInTest - is it worth the money? 

 

Any other options?

 

Thank you very much!

 

 

GSAT is great at stressing RAM and picking up possible errors. 

 

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RAM With Google Stressful Application Test (GSAT)

For Linux users, the Google Stressful Application Test (GSAT) is an excellent tool for diagnosing memory errors. Alternatively, you can run GSAT in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). However, it doesn't have the same effect, which is why we so we recommend using GSAT in its native environment.

 

Google Stressful Application Test

 

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

1. Open a terminal and use the following command to download and install GSAT: sudo apt-get install stressapptest

 

2. Once installed, put GSAT into motion with this command: stressapptest -W -s 3600.

 

The -W argument asks GSAT to utilize a more stressful memory copy for the processor. Meanwhile, the -s argument refers to the number of seconds to run the tool. Unlike other software based on passes or cycles, GSAT runs according to your specified time. On the norm, one to two hours are more than adequate to assess whether you have a bad DIMM

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[GanjaSMK]

GSAT is dope for Linux. Solid recommendation on RAM testing.

[The Pook]

GSAT the GOAT

[ENTERPRISE]

18 hours ago, The Pook said:

GSAT the GOAT

Bummer....I missed my opportunity to call something the "GOAT"

[Memmento Mori]

Thank you for your recommendations... And has anyone an experience with the Passmark Burn in test? 

[neurotix]

On 01/05/2024 at 12:33, Memmento Mori said:

Thank you for your recommendations... And has anyone an experience with the Passmark Burn in test? 

 

Since everyone is saying use GSAT and I agree, here is a little imformation and help for you since you're new to it.

 

GSAT stands for Google Stressful Application Test. It's what Google uses to stress test their servers.

 

To get it, open a terminal and type: sudo apt install stressapptest

 

To run it once it's installed, copy and paste this into your terminal:

 

stressapptest -s XXXX -M 29000 --pause_delay 9999999999 -W --max_errors 1

 

XXXX seconds to run. 3600 is an hour and if you can pass an hour you are probably stable, though I did 4 hours on my current RAM OC.

 

Hope this helps.

Edited May 9 by neurotix

[Memmento Mori]

so guys, the system is stable but still kinda lacking any app to get both GPU stresstested.. wanted to make an all around stresstest on the machine to see if it is stable from each perspective, HW part.... Any ideas? 

 

found this here but non of them are working for me or im just to inmature in Ubuntu 20.04 

 

Perform GPU, CPU, and I/O stress testing on Linux

LAMBDALABS.COM

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How to stress test a system for simultaneous GPU and CPU loads using two stress tools, stress and gpu_burn, and three monitoring tools, htop, iotop and nvidia-smi.

 

 

GitHub - wilicc/gpu-burn: Multi-GPU CUDA stress test

GITHUB.COM

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Multi-GPU CUDA stress test. Contribute to wilicc/gpu-burn development by creating an account on GitHub.

 

any support would be highly appreciated.... 

[The Pook]

Unigine (all, Heaven + Valley + Superposition) have native Linux clients and 3DMark can work through Proton.  

[Memmento Mori]

downloaded superposition but running it takes already 1,5 H and doing nothing... weird but ill let the "run" file finish... "download" it... 

 

 

[neurotix]

Try folding @home on both CPU and GPU at once if you can cool it well enough, otherwise just try GPU folding.

 

GPU folding+stressapptest should indicate stability.

Edited May 30 by neurotix

[Memmento Mori]

OMG, how could i forget Folding? bcs of the tree i dont see the forest LOL....  Thank you for the recomendation in the right direction....!

 

 

[neurotix]

No problem. Just make sure you can cool CPU+GPU folding at the same time. I have a monster RTX 4090 overclocked and just that running causes my CPU socket and CPU to heat up to between 52C~67C. I have no idea how hot it would get running folding on the CPU as well- probably in the 90s and it would downclock my CPU anyway making it pointless.

 

You can also try Unix Bytebench  which has been around since the 80s, it'll tell you your processor speed in MIPs and it might also have a loop option. It needs to be fetched with git and compiled from source though, so that assumes you know how.

 

Out if curiosity- what version and WM of Linux/Ubuntu are you running? I think I'm the resident Linux guy around here though I don't know my way around the terminal that great (I'm no Linux Guru) but there's a lot I know how to do.

[schuck6566]

Feel free to throw your systems in here.....  

 

[neurotix]

5 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

Feel free to throw your systems in here.....  

 

I don't see why, he made a thread clearly labeled Ubuntu under the software section. Unless you think he'd get more help there or something.

[Memmento Mori]

it has to be ubuntu as the provider need to be ubuntu... 20.04 version...

 

Its an threadripper build on the Asus Sage wrx80 with an threadripper 3975WX, 256 GB ram and 2x 4090  but have to say i have problems to ge running the 2x4090 o pcie 4.0 x 16 , even when i tested in a WIN 11 instalation and Ubuntu is very new to me as well as the motherboard.. so im strugling pretty much ... tryied as well to install the FAH client on ubuntu based on the comands on their side and kinda got stuck as it is missing some files and i just uninstalled it as it was throwing me every 5 min "softare error occured"... 

 

Telling my self that now i know how my Mom was feeling when i gave her the iphone and she is already an older lady was used to Android and now as well kinda "strugling   so if here is someone sakilled to get me through it or give me some advice how to make it working would be nice as there are not much informations on the internet about the sage boards...

 

[neurotix]

3 hours ago, Memmento Mori said:

it has to be ubuntu as the provider need to be ubuntu... 20.04 version...

 

Its an threadripper build on the Asus Sage wrx80 with an threadripper 3975WX, 256 GB ram and 2x 4090  but have to say i have problems to ge running the 2x4090 o pcie 4.0 x 16 , even when i tested in a WIN 11 instalation and Ubuntu is very new to me as well as the motherboard.. so im strugling pretty much ... tryied as well to install the FAH client on ubuntu based on the comands on their side and kinda got stuck as it is missing some files and i just uninstalled it as it was throwing me every 5 min "softare error occured"... 

 

Telling my self that now i know how my Mom was feeling when i gave her the iphone and she is already an older lady was used to Android and now as well kinda "strugling   so if here is someone sakilled to get me through it or give me some advice how to make it working would be nice as there are not much informations on the internet about the sage boards...

 

 

I am not sure I can help with your setup. A user here named keeph8n had a Asus Sage board but Intel, and also had two 4090s in it, and experienced the same issues with PCI in Windows as well as Ubuntu. He was having trouble getting more than one GPU recognized and folding.

 

I suggest trying to install f@h again, it should be as simple as installing a .deb package with gdebi, then entering your username, team and key. It will install as a system service and run in the background, by default it will fold on your CPU not GPU. To make it fold on (one) GPU and not your CPU, add or change the CPU slot in /etc/fahclient/config.xml:

 

 <slot id='1' type='GPU'>
    <pci-bus v='1'/>
    <pci-slot v='0'/>
  </slot>

 

Replace your CPU slot with that. However, you will need to open a root file browser, or use Ubuntu's text editor to open and change it. For me the terminal command is: sudo xed /etc/fahclient/config.xml. However, this will only add one GPU and I'm not sure how you add others like if you just change the PCI slot to '1' to add your second card and add it as another slot. nvidia-smi might help and you can use that to check and see if both cards are working or not.

 

Also, this all depends on you having actual Nvidia drivers installed, which you should be able to do through the GUI. You need 525 or 535. You are also going to need to look into changing coolbits for each card for fan control through the Nvidia X Server Settings.

 

After you change your GPU slots, reboot for the change to take, then go to in a web browser: http://127.0.0.1:7396/ to see your GPU slots and control them. (If all goes well.) Also, I might recommend installing Linux Mint Cinnamon edition as opposed to mainline Ubuntu. Mainline Ubuntu is pretty clogged/bloated and is less than ideal. Linux Mint might pick up both your GPUs, and just go to Driver Manager to choose the Nvidia 525 drivers instead of the open source Nouveau (which you cannot fold on).

 

Linux Mint Cinnamon edition is also wayyy more user-friendly than mainline Ubuntu and works essentially like Windows does, with a taskbar on the bottom, start menu, and icons to the right of it that you click on to multitask.

 

Hope this helps.

 

EDIT: make your first priority getting the Nvidia closed source drivers installed and coolbits set for fan control. Check nvidia-smi in a terminal to make sure both cards are present. (Just type nvidia-smi and hit enter)

Edited May 31 by neurotix

[ENTERPRISE]

21 hours ago, neurotix said:

I don't see why, he made a thread clearly labeled Ubuntu under the software section. Unless you think he'd get more help there or something.

It is more of sharing his system in that thread as a unified resource, he did say "Feel free" indicating there was no requirement nor that the OP did anything wrong by posting outside that thread

[neurotix]

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

It is more of sharing his system in that thread as a unified resource, he did say "Feel free" indicating there was no requirement nor that the OP did anything wrong by posting outside that thread

Ok, sorry I misunderstood that. My bad.

[Memmento Mori]

well my initial thought was that Ubuntu is lke Windows and OS and that there is for sure an way how to stresstest the whole system based on the Ubuntu OS...  As already told this OS is new to me so my learning curve has many hickups and maybee the way of asking is not that clear or direct it would be if i would knoww what im talking about  : I know what i want , the problem is to define it :)....

 

The fah cient is kinda not working for me.. but will try it with an ETC miner to see if it gets the both GPUS runing and on what lvl... I made the Sage working in a way that it works fine if you define the lanes as PCIE 3... at least something

 

@neurotix - thank you for your time investement and your help, appreciate it!

 

will post back once i have an result...

 

 

[neurotix]

3 hours ago, Memmento Mori said:

well my initial thought was that Ubuntu is lke Windows and OS and that there is for sure an way how to stresstest the whole system based on the Ubuntu OS...  As already told this OS is new to me so my learning curve has many hickups and maybee the way of asking is not that clear or direct it would be if i would knoww what im talking about  : I know what i want , the problem is to define it :)....

 

The fah cient is kinda not working for me.. but will try it with an ETC miner to see if it gets the both GPUS runing and on what lvl... I made the Sage working in a way that it works fine if you define the lanes as PCIE 3... at least something

 

@neurotix - thank you for your time investement and your help, appreciate it!

 

will post back once i have an result...

 

 

 

If I helped you, thank me lol. Hit that button.

 

Here's hoping you work something out.

[Memmento Mori]

so the final state is, that the rig is stable on CPU and Memory, GPU as well but i could not get it run in 2x x16 PCIE 4.0. No mather wat i do or set up it will ens up with 1 working and one being in error state. Funny thing is that it working in a  maunual setup first PCIE port in 16x PCIE 4.0 and the pcie Nr. 3 in x16 PCIE 3.0... dont ask me why or how but its working.. Im kinda OK witht he end result.

 

BTW there is a nice command:  nvidia-smi -q    it shows all the details of the GPUS, as well the limits, PCIE connected to ect....

 

Thank you very much guys for your support and sharing the informations with me.

[neurotix]

No problem, glad to help. If you could get them both + cpu folding you'd probably have a shot at first place in the foldathons! Nice stuff!

Edited June 3 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Maybe you should try Windows. Install Nvidia drivers and install f@h with the Advanced Control and add slots on that through the GUI. See if you can get all that hardware folding

[Memmento Mori]

thats exactly what i did, as a maintenence OS i just installed there an 120 gb SSD with Windows and all the tools so if domething went wrong im able to diagnose the whole machine and test it propperly.. as in ubuntu its not easy if you dont know the system and all the "commands".. but yeah thank you for the advice.. and as wrote before, unfortunatelly i was just able to runn it in the 1x PCIE 4 and 1x in PCIE 3, but anyway its doing what it should for now so happy with the result

 

Thanks again for the support....