detecting overheating processors?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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.

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