Comment A cool fix... (Score 1) 146
Simply lock up the CPU doing something busy all the time.... ie
nice -n +20 gzip < /dev/zero > /dev/null &
On any modern unix variant, you'll not notice any loss in performance, however, just about every available cpu cycle will be chewed. Your system load (cpu and interrupt) will be relatively constant, regardless of what else you might have the box doing.
Check and see, but I think all of us unix junkies have those commands installed by default. :) No recompile or rewrite of some RFC required.
I think it's a cool fix.
nice -n +20 gzip <
On any modern unix variant, you'll not notice any loss in performance, however, just about every available cpu cycle will be chewed. Your system load (cpu and interrupt) will be relatively constant, regardless of what else you might have the box doing.
Check and see, but I think all of us unix junkies have those commands installed by default.
I think it's a cool fix.
