detecting overheating processors?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1942228052.20040302193211 at andric.com>, Dimitry Andric writes:

>> I would prefer to have a program called "stress" which could be run
>> at any time to test hardware.
>
>It's called "make buildworld". ;)

In fact it isn't (anymore).

I've seen modern hardware run buildworld for days, but explode on
scientific FP work in a few minutes.

It used to be the case that buildworld would stress a CPU, but with
all the specialty circuitry put into CPUs these days, buildworld
probably ends up using the MMX and SSE extension silicon as a
heatsink.

A real stress-test would be something which engages bus-interface,
integer, floating point and preferably any "extensions" as well.

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