Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:07:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0009212106130.8542-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200009212223.PAA02142@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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I don't have it enabled... I am not even on my laptop with -CURRENT... this is on my regular PC... and I'm taking my thermal readings by banging around on some memory addys through /dev/io with a little hack of a program I wrote as a windowmaker dockapp for this purpose... ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > I can second this... on my PC the cpu used to run around about 84 degrees > > F with the case at 80 degrees F, now the cpu runs at about 91-93 degrees F > > while the case runs at 80 degrees F. > > While you're tinkering with SMPng, be VERY SURE that you do not have acpi > enabled (ie. make sure it's not in your kernel config). We're not yet > handling thermal management, and this *will* hurt you. > > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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