Infinite Loop

[ZebOfMac]

Dusting off my old computer books and was wondering if anyone knows of an Infinite Loop that runs on OS X?

Interesting to see how this would tax the CPU or is there a better code out there now?

Cheers!
Chris

 

[Hellhammer]

So, do you just want to max out the CPU? CPUTest does pretty good job with that

 

[ZebOfMac]

Thanks,

Yes, thats what I am wanting to do.

Now, for the same sort of software but ran on the GPU to examine the chips.

Cheers!
Chris

 

[Hellhammer]

Cinebench can test them both

 

[DustyLBottoms]

There's only 1 Infinite Loop I know off.......

 

[ZebOfMac]

Cinebench can test them both

Thanks again HellHammer!
I am putting these all together onto a thumb drive for backup as well.

 

[ZebOfMac]

There's only 1 Infinite Loop I know off.......

Dusty,

These are an old way of testing chip sets by repeating a command over and over ... until an external ctrl is used to stop the test.

Old Computer Science stuff.

Cheers!,
Chris

 

[tjb1]

yes > /dev/null in terminal?

 

[ZebOfMac]

yes > /dev/null in terminal?

This didn't do anything; probably as I was doing it wrong. I need to learn how to use terminal for OS X.

Any good books anyone could suggest?

Cheers!
Chris

 

[tjb1]

Just type this in terminal and hit enter. Control-C or Quit terminal to stop it.

yes > /dev/null

go to Activity Monitor and there should be a process called "yes" and on mine it uses 100% cpu and I can do 4 of these terminal commands in different windows to get all my cores at 100%. Works pretty good.

 

[lewis82]

You can also use Power Fractal, which can max out any CPU or even cluster of chips. And you get nice pictures as a bonus