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Fuzzing is a great use of spare CPU time…
by floatboth 8y ago
Fuzzing is a great use of spare CPU time…
- UweSchmidt 8y agoWe do have an energy constraint (i.e. catastrophic global warming), and idle CPUs use less energy.
- adrianN 8y agoI tend to agree with you, but CPUs only use a percent or two of our energy and idle CPUs still use power. It seems to me that there are lower hanging fruit that we should pluck first.
- sagartewari01 8y agoOveruse reduces the lifetime of CPUs. I'm pretty sure unning a CPU at full throttle for a week will burn it out.
- penagwin 8y agoI'd like to see a source on that. With most electronics, CPUs and GPUs included, the killer is heat. As long as you have the heat under control you're fine. Some applications such as laptops can't keep the thermals undercontrol at sustained 100% CPU usage, so those are obviously at risk. The only other form of "wear" is electron migration and I HIGHLY doubt you'll kill a modern processor "in a week", even if you left it running at 95C .
- floatboth 8y agoBollocks. You can run at 100% load 24/7 for years, if it's not overvolted too much, it won't degrade in any noticeable way
- xxpor 8y agoWe do not have an energy constraint. The amount of wind energy and solar energy hitting the earth at any one time is enormous.
- steve_musk 8y agoWe have a usable energy constraint.
- ken 8y agoAlso: superoptimization. Would anyone pay for SOaaS?