frying your cpu

Posted by Anurag in utilities
Wednesday, April 4. 2007

i did write a script to heat up my cpu with openssl looping 256 times instead. On the P4 box, i get this message on my terminal within few seconds.



Message from syslogd@web2 at Wed Apr  4 12:56:34 2007 ...

web2 kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold



Message from syslogd@web2 at Wed Apr  4 12:56:34 2007 ...

web2 kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode

allright, no need to invest in room heater this winter.

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mehul - #1 - 2007-04-04 20:05 - (Reply)

So you are going to buy tons of computers this winter?

Riyaz Usman - #2 - 2007-04-06 15:02 - (Reply)

Oye, Tum itna ameer aadmi ho kya,

always playing with cpu, by over heating it ?

mehul - #2.1 - 2007-04-06 15:13 - (Reply)

Riyaz he has too many servers at his disposal, he can afford to break a few of them and blame that the hardware wasn't good enough to be used for a server hehe

Anurag - #2.1.1 - 2007-04-06 18:41 - (Reply)

exactly!! i made sure that the hardware was still under AMC contract.

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