Re: buildworld times

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet (andy_at_siliconlandmark.com)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:31:33 -0500 (EST)
To: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>

    On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Vincent Poy wrote:

    > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
    > > If you're hitting 80+ degrees, your CPU is going to throttle to keep the
    > > temperature down. This is likely to be the cause (or at least a good
    > > contributor) of the large buildworld times you're seeing. You might want
    > > to look into improved cooling, possibly water-cooling. :-)
    >
    > This is actually a notebook and not a desktop machine so the temps
    > are higher than the desktop counterparts as my desktop P4C3.2 at 3.8Ghz
    > runs at 50C full load. The P4M-2.6Ghz mobile processor runs at 63C even
    > when idle. It might be the Thermal Interface Material just needs
    > replacing or something. Is there a way to monitor the temperatures of the
    > CPU since I do notice the load time averages moves up the the 6.xx when
    > using -j4.

    There used to be a sysctl that displayed cpu temperature in tenths of a
    degree Kelvin. For some unknown reason, I can't seem to find it in a
    kernel from February 10th. Try doing some exploring in sysctl -a.

    Regards,
    Andy

    > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
    > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >

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