Subject: Re: Power dissipation under linux
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 13:51:49 MST
At 9:11 AM -0800 2/18/02, Jim Potter wrote:
>I'm working on a high-end embedded system that uses multiple 745x cpus
>and I'm stress-testing the cooling system. After running some of the
>popular 'scientific' applications (set@home, distributed.net, etc) I
>have noticed that the system seems to throw off the most heat when all
>CPUs are idle.
>
>Does anyone have a favorite application or code sequence to make some
>1ghz CPUs dissipate the most heat? Thanks.
You already ran it. :) RC5 usually seems to heat up G4s quite
nicely. Are you sure you had a version with the 7450-optimized
crunchers?
Actually, are you sure it's really generating the most heat when
idle? That sounds very strange.
-- Tim Seufert
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