Good OSX Stress Test?

[VirtualRain]

What's a good stress test for OSX that can max out an Octo and generate some heat?

Back in the day, I used Prime95 on Windows for stability and cooling system testing... what's the best choice under OSX?

 

[iBookG4user]

Try opening a few Terminal windows and typing "yes" into each of them, that should be a good stress test.

 

[bblrsn1234]

Does this ever stop?

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Play a song in iTunes for about 10 minutes. It will bump your CPU temperatures by over 20C and lower the performance of your Mac Pro by 20% or more. Thanks Apple!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[dukebound85]

for cpu
http://www.coolbook.se/CPUTest.html

for ram
http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember/

 

[bearcatrp]

Install BOINC and crunch some date for world community grid. That will definately max out your system.

 

[VirtualRain]

for cpu
http://www.coolbook.se/CPUTest.html

for ram
http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember/

Thanks! That was just what I was looking for.

 

[CaptainChunk]

Hmmmmm.....

Send a 1080p H.264 render job to Compressor using all 8 cores in a virtual cluster? At least CPU wise, that seems to bring an Octo to its knees.

 

[galstaph]

If you want to really push 100% on all procs/threads download get a copy of maxwell render (trial should work) and download the scene from benchwell.com, maxwell render will stress 98-100% cpu while rendering

 

[Keniff]

http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/