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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:43:03 +0000
From:      Nuno Teixeira <nu@nunotex.freeshell.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: detecting overheating processors?
Message-ID:  <20040302214303.GA892@nunotex>
In-Reply-To: <200403021941.40072.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
References:  <78841.1078239798@critter.freebsd.dk> <200403021941.40072.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>

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Hi,

In about 10 minutes I put my athlon xp 1700+ from 40,1 C -> 54,6 C using
xmbmon monitor. I'm listening mp3 without any scratch! I will stop it
now, I like very much my pc :)

Bye,

	Nuno

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:41:37PM +0100, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:03, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <6.0.1.1.1.20040302124613.03af9150@imap.sfu.ca>, Colin Percival 
> 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



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