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 -- SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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