[ltp] X60 overheating, temperatures at full speed

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008, Derek Dolney wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Oct 2008, martin kot wrote:
> > > My X60 is now in for service a second time. The technicians tell med
> > > that they can't crank the temperature up to more than 56C, which is
> > > more or less opposite of what I experienced. Now the technician wants
> > > more details about the software being used, and I guess I'll have to
> > > explain that it's linux with usual desktop software. Wonder if they
> > > are going to be understandable in that matter. Oh well, I will not
> > > give up so easily.
> 
> This will peg a core at 100%:
> 
>      yes > /dev/null
> 
> Start two if you have a dual core.

Not even close to the thermal load you can get from cpuburn.  The above is
still too "soft", it doesn't stress out the MMX/SSE unit, nor the FP paths,
etc.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh