detecting overheating processors?

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

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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