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Accelerate component burn-in via CPU loading
Authored by: TheCrunge on Dec 14, '06 05:03:35PM
A quick way to pin your CPU(s) to 100% (well, 99.8 or so) is to run this in Terminal:
yes > /tmp/yes
Don't forget to ctrl c to stop the process.

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Accelerate component burn-in via CPU loading
Authored by: tma on Dec 15, '06 02:05:06AM

... except that this will create a file which will increase in size until you stop the process, potentially filling up your hard drive. A better way would be this:

yes > /dev/null



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