IANAGE (gentoo expert), but AFAIK many laptops are not designed to handle 100% system load. Compiling software comes close -- and compilation (and linking, etc) has a lot of small steps, so it is not *completely* balls-to-the-wall. There are other tools which can keep keep respective components (cpu, disk, memory, bus, etc) at known levels, controllably. Folding and mprime are common way to bump CPU :)
You might want to consider burn-in & system-testing software, as well as benchmarking stuff. The CPU will be the biggest heat dissipator in a laptop, I'm pretty sure, but a misdesigned hard drive heatsink could compound the issue, as could even other components like graphics, network, sound, and so forth. It would be fun to see full-on tests on all I/O, including card readers, USB/1394, wifi&BT, and docking bay, just to see what happens... ben On 3/26/07, Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I came across the subject of testing laptop coolers recently. I have a question for those who have done gentoo installs. Would install gentoo linux from source code be a good test of the effectiveness of a laptop cooler? This I assume should only be done when the test system can be attended throughout the install. Whether correct or not, I have heard that this could cause a laptop to catch fire because of the heavy load on the system. Jim K
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