Quote Originally Posted by yomny View Post
is there a way to run a problem size of 10000 but using the least amount of memory, as to only test the cpu itself. Like what prime95 does when you run small ftt's in which it doesn't use ram just stresses cpu? When i set the problem to 10000 the ram used is 775mbs
I'm afraid not. Linpack solves a system of linear equations (a matrix with dimensions Problem Size x Leading Dimensions, 10000 x 10008 in your case) where every operand requires a fixed amount of memory (8 bytes). 99% of memory consumed by Linpack is used just to store that matrix. So problem size and memory are bound together.

Good news for you is that Linpack is pretty light on memory stressing. Minor memory instabilities usually don't cause errors in Linpack.