Archive for March, 2025

Mentorship Session: Stress-ng: How to Stress Test Your Computer (and Possibly Break It)

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Mentor: Colin Ian King, Principle Engineer, Intel

The stress-ng tool is designed to stress test kernels and hardware. The presentation describes the various ways stress-ng can be used to exercise a system as well as the testing concepts that shape the project:
– Overview and testing concepts
– Worked examples
– Building and installing stress-ng
– Results and success stories
– How to contribute to the project
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Stress Testing and Micro Benchmarking Kernels with Stress-ng – Colin Ian King, Canonical

stress-ng is a relatively new kernel stress and micro bench-marking tool with over 200 stress tests designed to comprehensively exercise a wide-range of kernel interfaces and core components. In this talk, Colin King will describe how stress-ng is being used for regression testing and performance bench-marking kernels across a range of kernels and architectures for IoT devices, servers and cloud environments.
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COVID 19: What to do if you develop symptoms while away from home

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In many areas of the U.S. and around the world, people are being told to stay home and avoid travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, travel restrictions may not apply to employees of critical industries, such as trucking, public health professionals, financial services, and food supply. So what should someone do if they develop symptoms consistent with COVID-19 while traveling?

Here’s what Dr. Abinash Virk, an infectious diseases expert at Mayo Clinic, says you should do if you’re away from home and develop symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath:

Read more: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-what-to-do-if-you-develop-symptoms-while-away-from-home/

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What are the symptoms of high cholesterol?

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High cholesterol leads to premature blockages in the heart arteries, heart attacks and strokes. But how do you know if you have high cholesterol? What are the symptoms? The answer is that the majority of people have no symptoms at all until they have a heart attack or a stroke! High cholesterol works in the background causing atherosclerosis, slowly furring up the arteries all over the body. The only way to know if you have it is to get a blood cholesterol check by your doctor.

You can find Dr MacDonald at:

https://heartdoctormacdonald.com/