[TriLUG] thermal evaluation of cpu

[Jason Faulkner]

An informal poll and testing session here at broadwick shows that

md5sum /dev/urandom

Will successfully make your CPU got to 99%, and stay at 99% :)

--Jay

On 3/16/06, Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:
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> John Mitchell wrote:
> |    Can the Trilug suggest any other cpu intensive programs?
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> | John Mitchell
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> Building something large: kernel, libc, gcc, over and over again may not
> be a bad idea, if used with make's -j2 (or 3, or 4 =) option (to avoid
> any sort of pauses while waiting for IO.)  3d rendering (something like
> povray), or cryptographic stuffs (as suggested by Brett, calculating the
> md5 hash for Something Large will do it =])
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