Fortunately I didn't read this before I bought one.
When running heavy-duty disk crunching tests, I had my root
filesystem go south on me and die (on a K6/166, 2.0.28+hacks, running
my own distribution of Linux.) When I was doing floating point
benchmarking of Schrodinger's PS-GVB on that same root disk, the
filesystem went south again. But when I ran that benchmark on a
scratch disk, it was perfectly happy.
I've only run the thing for about 48 hours at a time so far, but it
seems to be perfectly compatable for benchmarking work.
(my benchmarks show the k6 5% slower than a 80521 for integer, and
about 45% slower for floating point. Bummer about the floating
point :-()
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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