detecting overheating processors?

[Doug Ambrisko]

Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
| 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.

Mine is:
	sh
	while :
	do
	done

and watch the temperature go up immediately.  In about 15 minutes or
less it will be at max.  I found this out by accident and wondered
one this one system kept crashing.  Some CPUs are more sensitive to
temperature then others.  Some heat sinks work better.

Doug A.