Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:40:26 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_pcpu.c Message-ID: <20050929224026.192de1bd.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050929161804.F34322@fledge.watson.org> References: <200509261655.j8QGtBeE012785@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050926174442.GA57238@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050926181234.GA23937@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050927103746.364de995.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20050927184742.GB30441@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050928044624.2e052569.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20050929161804.F34322@fledge.watson.org>
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:19:17 +0100 (BST) Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > >>>>> My 14-cpu machine thanks you :-) > >>>> > >>>> I'm curious: what machine model is that? > >>> > >>> Who cares about model, can I borrow it. :P > >> > >> A UE4500 is quite loud and quite hot. Not a box I would want at home. > > > > Could heat the house during those cold winter nights. :) > > I remember my old sparcstation hardware at CMU with some fondness for this > reason -- on a cold Pittsburgh evening, overheating computer hardware was > strictly necessary, even in the presence of decent radiators. However, > with 14+ cooling fans for one machine, it did need to be a couple of rooms > down. With the potential temps in Pittsburgh during the winter, just remove most of the fans and place a big one right beside it. You'll be nice and toasty. I keep thinking to give my electric company the finger and run continuous FreeBSD builds on a handfull of machines this year. :P -- Tom Rhodes
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