Hardware latency tests, used PC's

seuchato wrote:

Way more than necessary, ...

What do you think is too much?

Do not worry about that, that is very good as it shows info about everything on the PC, so that makes comparison and reporting results much, much easier.
Since we are on to requests, adding the option of testing base thread at 100000 would also be nice for older PC's running RT-Preempt kernel, since the new RTAI kernel do not allow Linuxcnc to work on them.
That is rarely needed, but it would give another chance at usability for some hobby machines and some bigger machines that do not need high step rates. For some users having a machine that works no matter how slow is much better than a non working machine. I am quite lucky at finding good PC's as i had 3 computer shops and some of my friends still have computer shops, so i can get them really cheap (like $600 HP tablet/laptop for $130 cheap) but not everyone has that luxury. And in general i prefer using older Enterprise edition Dell or HP or Lenovo or lately Fujitsu as they have the best "no compromise" electronics built in so they never fail. New Home edition stuff is way to weak and to slow and to ...... not usable for anything but word processing.

Tommy
Thanks a ton, so I'll leave the PC data stuff untouched for the time being.

I'll add:

• choice of base thread or no base thread
• choice of time to run
• option to quit
• firefox as default browser
• option for base thread at 100000

Once this is done, I think this should be entered in a new thread, describing things a bit. What do you think?
Greez
chris

That would be awesome.
Thank you.

any arguments against using dialog?

seuchato wrote: any arguments against using dialog?

That would be soooo undemocratic!
You mean:
-chose base or no base,
-enter time,
etc ???
Since it would be easier to use, use the dialog with the choice of pressing enter for any of the answers and using default values for them, or entering values. Two hours are OK, nobase should be default, so it removes the base period time question.

tommylight wrote: That would be soooo undemocratic!

Ain't that the way we life since a few years? :-]

tommylight wrote: Since it would be easier to use, use the dialog with the choice of pressing enter for any of the answers and using default values for them, or entering values. Two hours are OK, nobase should be default, so it removes the base period time question.

Yes, I intend to give dafault values or options, that users could alter or select.
So I interpret your statement as "Yes, use dialog"

Got some time tomorrow...
greez
chris