On Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:37:26 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop > > > > with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would > > default to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash > > script that manually put the CPU into "userspace" mode, and selected > > the maximum available CPU speed. I finally got Youtube with steady > > playback at 1080p... YAY! I'd leave it at max speed during my waking > > hours, and drop it to min speed at night before going to bed. > > > > I saw the occasional mysterious lockups as I mentioned in recent > > > > threads. I wonder if pushing the CPU to max speed most of the day > > would cause overheating and lockups. I'm leaving my current, more > > powerfull, machine in "conservative" mode. > > The CPU will automatically throttle when a certain temperature is > reached. This may be the cause of the lockups. > > > Should I stay in conservative mode? Or forget about speed control > > > > entirely, and let "Intel Speed Step" handle things for me? Also, is > > there a way to enable CPU throttling based on temperature? > > Have you tried ondemand mode? It ramps up the speed faster than > conservative mode and drops equally fast if there is not much to do. I > have it enabled everywhere and didn't notice any problems.
If thermal throttling takes place there will be entries in dmesg and syslog to this effect.
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