Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:03:18 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting overheating processors? Message-ID: <78841.1078239798@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:57:26 GMT." <6.0.1.1.1.20040302124613.03af9150@imap.sfu.ca>
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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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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