Re: System Panic Makes My Life Easier

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:34:59 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> My prime number generator hits the processor and RAM hard, and also
> exercises the hard disk. It's pretty easy to compile and run it on a
> live CD:
> 
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/primenumbers/
primenumbers.htm#_Implementation:_Scalability_Through_Paging
> 
> If you run my prime number generator, watch your processor temperature
> like a hawk.

It may have hit the processor hard in a desirable way when you wrote it, 
but today, SMP is the norm, and the code above is single-threaded, and 
due to its other resource usage, you can't just run multiple instances.