Timeline for How to stress a MacBook Pro Retina?
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| Aug 31, 2020 at 12:37 | comment | added | anki |
@GrahamMiln "alternative built-in command" tar can work.. just find a big folder and compress it to xz. It stresses CPU.
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| Feb 9, 2019 at 9:19 | vote | accept | Mannie | ||
| Mar 12, 2018 at 19:32 | comment | added | Graham Miln | @5uperdan please can you ask this as a new question. You will attract answers this way. Comments tend not to been as widely seen. | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 19:17 | comment | added | 5uperdan | When I run ShibuyaCrowd it can be a bit glitchy for a few seconds at a time. Would you suppose that's saying anything about my PC? ibb.co/dR43A7 | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 8:49 | comment | added | Graham Miln | @Mark please can you suggest an alternative built-in command? The WebGL link however will reasonably stress the CPU. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 8:29 | history | edited | nohillside♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
split code snippets into two lines, otherwise the value of CPU is substituted before it gets assigned.
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 23:53 | comment | added | Mark |
Your yes technique will heat the CPU up, but won't really stress it: it barely touches the caches, doesn't do anything with the floating-point calculation units, and for that matter, barely touches the integer-arithmetic circuits. Unless the fault is somewhere in the small part of the CPU it actually uses, it likely won't cause a freeze.
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 16:37 | comment | added | Graham Miln | Thank you. I have added your suggestion into the answer. | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 16:37 | history | edited | Graham Miln | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Refined command thanks to @lights0123 comment.
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 15:43 | comment | added | lights0123 |
To automatically get the number of cores, CPU="$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)" seq $CPU | xargs -I{} -P $CPU yes > /dev/null will work.
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 15:21 | history | edited | Graham Miln | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Typo.
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 13:35 | history | edited | Graham Miln | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 484 characters in body
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| Mar 10, 2018 at 13:10 | history | answered | Graham Miln | CC BY-SA 3.0 |