Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:32:59 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/SERIOUS] grilling troubled CPUs for fun and profit? |
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>> K6 run cooler even with the regular kernel HLT (sti/hlt I presume). >> Difference to full load can be up to 10 deg, depending on ambient (room) >> temperature. In winter (read 2005-12-31) it ran between 28 celsius and 34 >> celsius. The fan even stopped and I thought it was a fan failure, but >> luckily it was just hw-controlled :) > >Okay, so you've got a point. The patch is useful on k6 in the winter >:-). (Actually, to show you've got a point, you'd have to stop the fan >and show that cpu badly overheats under for(;;) conditions).
If you spend me a new CPU, no problem :p Maybe someone from AMD with spare K6s can try.
>Yes, we probably want to consolidate various for(;;) loops... and >maybe it will helpsomeone. If overheating causes reboot instead of >panic, you probably still loose, as BIOS is close to for(;;)...
The best would be to turn the machine off after, say, 60 seconds. (So you can grab the panic, if there is one.)
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