From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 29 11:15:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D37114F14; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:15:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D671CA0; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:15:16 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Temperature In-Reply-To: Message from Ted Sikora of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:03:24 EST." <386A4CEC.EB948EE8@home.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:15:16 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991229191516.17D671CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Sikora wrote: > During the night periodically my temp warning has been going off. > I have it set to 118F. This happens only under FreeBSD. Linux continues > to run cool at the old temperatures. Apparantly some code change has > caused this. Does anyone know exactly where I should look? The main difference is that Linux halts the cpu in the idle loop, we don't. As a result the cpu is in a tight spin waiting for a process to become scheduleable. I have some patches half-done that I've been working on for 4.0 that should probably be able to be adapted to the 3.x series. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message