For a few years, I ran Prime95 on a Windows 95 machine. That machine
is now retired, and since that time I have gotten another machine
running Linux. I was interested in running the prime search on it,
so I installed and ran the stress test. It passed. When I tried
running the prime search program, however, it was continually
getting segment violations. That's been a couple of years ago.
I posted some information on a Linux user's group, and most of
the responders completely pooh-poohed the idea that overheating
of the CPU would be an issue. One thing I can say about it is
that the segmentation violations were always NOT in the OS itself
but always in the prime search program. Just general overheating
would not discriminate against the program. OTOH, if the program
itself is nearly always the active process, then one would
expect problems to arise during its execution in proportion to
the proportion of total CPU it concerns.
Anyway, are there any further suggestions on why the stress
test passes, but the prime finder does not?
This is a 2.7 GHz Celeron.
Mike
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