[Gllug] server sleeping

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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Chris Bell said:
> On Sat 09 Sep, Casper Gasper wrote:
>>  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null
>> 
>> and that kills it too.
>> 
>> Casper.
> 
>    You may find that the processor cooler fan is covering a ring of debris
> that blocks the heat sink.

dd(1) hardly works the CPU at all (unless you're on a degraded RAID-5 or
RAID-6 array with a slow CPU, or are using PIO or something equally
silly, in which case you'll know, because your box will be intolerably
slow).

If a bunch of md5sums or big compilations crash it, that's confirmation.
(A GCC bootstrap-and-test is probably best, because even minor CPU or
RAM problems are almost certain to crash it. A kernel compile is
somewhat less likely to spot such problems, because the kernel that
results is never run.)

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