On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 09:33:25PM -0700, Dave Bayer wrote:
I recently did the classic "push a shopping cart down the aisle at Fry's" to build a Core 2 Quad computer, with Linux swap and a soft raid array spread across three 750 GB sata hard disks. I had some potential "first build" issues, notably a mishap with the lawn of copper grass that passes for a 775 cpu socket, followed by an hour of brain-surgery with a magnifying glass and a tiny screwdriver. I was very curious to test the stability of this system when it booted up after all; the best hardware test I could think of was multiple processes building GHC from source, with each iteration using the previous GHC binary as the compiler for the new build.
You might also try running the Jhc library build; on my system, that gets the processor about 5C hotter than a GHC build. Stefan