In message <6.0.1.1.1.20040302124613.03af9150_at_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_at_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.Received on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 06:03:24 UTC
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