On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:03, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. I believe sysutils/cpuburn can do exactly that. Best regards, Arjan
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