I was thinking of gentoo because:
1. I thought it had caused laptops to catch fire.
2. The person seems to be a windows type where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is probably
a better choice.
However I think he has the drive to do a gentoo install and it exposes
one more person to linux, though under difficult circumstances.
Jim K
Ben Barrett wrote:
IANAGE (gentoo expert), but AFAIK many laptops are not designed to
handle 100% system load.
Compiling software comes close -- and compilation (and linking, etc)
has a lot of small steps, so
it is not *completely* balls-to-the-wall. There are other tools which
can keep keep respective components (cpu, disk, memory, bus, etc) at
known levels, controllably.
Folding and mprime are common way to bump CPU :)
You might want to consider burn-in & system-testing software, as well
as benchmarking stuff.
The CPU will be the biggest heat dissipator in a laptop, I'm pretty
sure, but a misdesigned hard
drive heatsink could compound the issue, as could even other
components like graphics,
network, sound, and so forth. It would be fun to see full-on tests on
all I/O,
including card readers, USB/1394, wifi&BT, and docking bay, just to
see what happens...
ben
On 3/26/07, Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I came across the subject of testing laptop coolers recently. I have a
question for those who have done gentoo installs.
Would install gentoo linux from source code be a good test of the
effectiveness of a laptop cooler? This I assume should only be done when
the test system can be attended throughout the install. Whether correct
or not, I have heard that this could cause a laptop to catch fire
because of the heavy load on the system.
Jim K
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