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The comments in this thread are agressive and unhelpful. They criticize but do not provide any insights. This makes me sad :'(
by norswap 14y ago
The comments in this thread are agressive and unhelpful. They criticize but do not provide any insights. This makes me sad :'(
- protomyth 14y agoOther than buying new hardware, there isn't really much to say. Maybe check for a firmware update. It should not be possible in a well designed system to blow the machine via CPU usage from userland.
- dguaraglia 14y agoWell, the only insight that you need is: you can write a tight loop that will 'burn' that computer in any programming language. I've written scripts in Python that take 100% CPU time. The only thing stopping the computer from burning itself to a crisp are the OS (not the language the program is written on) and the firmware (most BIOS these days have a setting to auto-shutdown if core temperature goes beyond X value).