[Gllug] Spontaneous shutdown of laptop

[John Hearns]

2009/11/8 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>:
> On 6 Nov 2009, Benjamin Goodacre uttered the following:
>

>
> That's not quite as ideal as it would be: you have no proof that the
> compiler isn't spitting out rubbish, or something different every
> time. GCC bootstrap-and-test cycles are the thing (using make -j
> $NUM_CPUS or higher). The machine that can survive those with no
> comparison failures, with the same set of test failures every time and

Agreed - a loop of 'compile the linux kernel' was a good burn-in test
we used to do on site for clusters at Clustervision. Compile, tar up
the result tree, md5sum. Unpack a fresh tree, or make mrproper,
compile, md5sum, compare.

You can also run cpuburn (easily googled) if you want to put some heat
load on your CPU.
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