I still find mprime confusing. I chose #16 in the menu and the default answers to each question:
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16. Options/Torture Test
17. Options/Benchmark
18. Help/About
19. Help/About PrimeNet Server
Your choice: 16
Number of cores to torture test (10):
Use hyperthreading (more stressful) (Y):
Choose a type of torture test to run.
1 = Smallest FFTs (tests L1/L2 caches, high power/heat/CPU stress).
2 = Small FFTs (tests L1/L2/L3 caches, maximum power/heat/CPU stress).
3 = Large FFTs (stresses memory controller and RAM).
4 = Blend (tests all of the above).
Blend is the default. NOTE: if you fail the blend test but pass the
smaller FFT tests then your problem is likely bad memory or bad memory
controller.
Type of torture test to run (4):
Customize settings (N):
Run a weaker torture test (not recommended) (N):
Accept the answers above? (Y):
It started running its test, but since I didn't know how to interpret this program's textual output, I stopped it a couple of minutes later. It created results.txt that contained this:
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Self-test 384K passed!
Self-test 384K passed!
Self-test 384K passed!
While mprime was running, I saw this:
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dev.cpu.19.temperature: 82.0C
dev.cpu.17.temperature: 82.0C
dev.cpu.15.temperature: 83.0C
dev.cpu.13.temperature: 99.0C
dev.cpu.11.temperature: 90.0C
dev.cpu.9.temperature: 98.0C
dev.cpu.7.temperature: 85.0C
dev.cpu.5.temperature: 99.0C
dev.cpu.3.temperature: 88.0C
dev.cpu.1.temperature: 97.0C
dev.cpu.18.temperature: 82.0C
dev.cpu.16.temperature: 82.0C
dev.cpu.14.temperature: 83.0C
dev.cpu.12.temperature: 99.0C
dev.cpu.10.temperature: 90.0C
dev.cpu.8.temperature: 98.0C
dev.cpu.6.temperature: 85.0C
dev.cpu.4.temperature: 100.0C
dev.cpu.2.temperature: 87.0C
dev.cpu.0.temperature: 97.0C
I don't know what any of this means and how to interpret this.