On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 11:43:53AM -0400, songbird wrote: > tv.debian wrote: > ... > > Also modern cpu do not suffer from high temperatures as much as the cpu > > of yore, they use up all the thermal headroom they have, then throttle > > the frequency/power to stay at that level. Of course the rest of the > > system has to deal with the residual heat as well if it is not removed > > from the chassis. > > there's no fans in the chassis other than the tiny CPU > heat sink cooling fan. it doesn't run at high speed when > i'm doing my normal activities (typing, browsing, listening > to music or some minor data crunching) just once in a while > does the fan kick up to higher speed where i hear it and > that is when i'm booting the computer up and also once in > a while when browsing some sites that do something more > intensive. and now when i'm uploading files to my website > hosting service. by far the worst now as the others might > be for a few seconds and then it shuts back off again as > compared to the FTP software which when it kicks on the > fan it takes five minutes or longer and that's what got me > curious as i don't like to listen to that. so i want to > know how to calm it down and shut it up. :) > > > songbird >
Maybe don't use FTP but use rsync - that way you can come back to it after a while and start again at the point you left off? It does depend *exactly* what files you are transferring. All best, as ever, Andy
