An informal poll and testing session here at broadwick shows that md5sum /dev/urandom
Will successfully make your CPU got to 99%, and stay at 99% :) --Jay On 3/16/06, Ian Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Mitchell wrote: > | Can the Trilug suggest any other cpu intensive programs? > | > | > | John Mitchell > > Building something large: kernel, libc, gcc, over and over again may not > be a bad idea, if used with make's -j2 (or 3, or 4 =) option (to avoid > any sort of pauses while waiting for IO.) 3d rendering (something like > povray), or cryptographic stuffs (as suggested by Brett, calculating the > md5 hash for Something Large will do it =]) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEGcE7wsRpgTiXSOERAoMnAKDHul2Hd0BYsUjStOpeHbwekfaWdgCgjgtd > fxfIXG8Fdh8OV6zJlZdfIqc= > =INDh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Jason Faulkner ------------------------ OldOs.org Owner/Admin // OpenDocument Fellowship Sysadmin
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