Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:41:37 +0100 From: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: detecting overheating processors? Message-ID: <200403021941.40072.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> In-Reply-To: <78841.1078239798@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <78841.1078239798@critter.freebsd.dk>
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--Boundary-02=_kVNRARg8pW1+9Ph Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:03, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <6.0.1.1.1.20040302124613.03af9150@imap.sfu.ca>, Colin Perciva= l=20 writes: > > I'm seeing something very interesting with FreeBSD Update: Lots > >of overheating processors. FreeBSD Update operates by checking > >MD5 hashes, applying patches, and checking the MD5 hashes of the > >patched files. If the file is wrong after patching, it downloads > >the entire file (and verifies its hash). > > In my experience MD5 does seem to be a really good CPU heater. > > Rather than putting any "burn-in-test" functionality into any one > program, be it sysinstall or otherwise, I would prefer to have a > program called "stress" which could be run at any time to test > hardware. I believe sysutils/cpuburn can do exactly that. Best regards, Arjan --Boundary-02=_kVNRARg8pW1+9Ph Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBARNVk3Ym57eNCXiERAuAPAJ9upMYPbmKq3Cto49BwEWyGWJmHjgCggE4O BXSgV4SFPmZHTuFLyDLGknI= =XlDy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_kVNRARg8pW1+9Ph--
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