Re: What PC hardware diagnostic stress-testing freeware can you recommend?

Arlen Holder wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
> 
>> Likewise, I think using it for your daily driver is a disadvantage in
>> the diagnosis business.  The tweaked OS has two many unknowns.
> 
> It hasn't BSOD'd in a few days, running 24/7, where I thought you'd be
> interested in a "WhySoSlow" Analysis, after 24 hours of use as the dd:
> 
> The only anomaly I see is the mouse every once in a while is glitchy,
> in that it doesn't move for a microsecond and then recovers, which happens
> relatively frequently (about once an hour or so on average or so).
> 
What kind of mouse?  USB or PS/2 - optical or ball

> But I don't know of any tool, yet, that monitors mouse "glitchiness".
> o Do you?
> 
No.

> RAM: 16127 MB total
> 
I tho't you were previously using 32G.

> 
> While the test was idle, your CPU usage ranged from 18.7% to 60.8%.
> 
What kind of 'idle' is that? (that is 20-60% cpu?)

> During the test hard pagefaults ranged from 0.0 to 9.1 pagefaults per second.
> The values reported are considered excellent.
> More info..<http://www.resplendence.com/whysoslow_help_hardpagefaults>

I read that page.  I don't understand why there should be the kind of 
pagefaults it is reporting (9/sec) if you have 16G of ram.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/the-basics-of-page-faults/ba-p/373120 
  The Basics of Page Faults

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault
> Illegal accesses and invalid page faults, as invalid conditions, can result in a segmentation fault or bus error, resulting in programming termination (crash) or core dump, depending on the operating system environment. 

> Major page faults on conventional computers using hard disk drives for storage can have a significant impact on performance, <math operations> then the page fault would make the operation about 40,000 times slower. 



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Mike Easter