Code review comment for lp:~manjo/checkbox/stress-test

Daniel,

I know of the stress program, infact I was one of the contributors to it. stress is designed to put stress on the system , ie it is a load generator. It generates load on the CPU by executing sqrt on a random number. What my test program does is it exercises the floating point and integer parts of the CPU and the path on the processor that deals with data and test cache misses. This is done using NXN vector multiplication and depending on input params you can cause the cpu to really work hard and draw close to max wattage.