On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 07:15:21PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Mattia Dongili: ... > > One thing you may want to check is if the configuration is preventing > > higher freq/voltages when the cpu temperature is too high. > > That's what I wonder. It never steps to higher freq. on high load. > What's holding it back? ondemand says it can / will do this. > > Me, I suspect kernel & sensors support on AMD hardware's not yet quite > there.
you should try to set the frequency manually with cpufreq-set and see if you get there at all. Try different governors and see if it makes any difference. > > > Biggest prob. here is, once it spikes to C 100, it's not long til it > > > does a hard shutdown. Not good in mid-backup. > > > > well, sounds like you have worst problems than a software package not > > scaling up your cpu (how would that help with lowering the > > temperature?). > > If 512MHz is struggling, turn on the jets until cpu's no longer > struggling, yes? What don't I understand? I just don't want my > machine going up in flames from struggling along at 512 MHz when it > could be doing 2.x GHz and getting it done, at least a !...@#$ of a lot > faster. I've never seen it kick up to a higher freq., and its > shutting down hard when hot is annoying. Not to mention imagined wear > and tear. Parts of the keyboard are too hot to touch at times. > Paint's blistering. > > I did boot (for once) into Vista a few minutes ago, and it appears to run > pretty much the same temp. there ... Hmmm, ... Need to verify ... > > Thanks for yor time, Mattia. :-) > > > Anyway, see if not having cpufreqd around helps although I doubt it. > > I've uninstalled cpufreq* and initial temp was C 81, now settled back > to C 75; box still not doing anything but X (fluxbox): does it scale up if cpu demand is high? -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
