On Friday, 14 June 2024 13:55:49 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a (now quite old) MSsurface-pro4 with an I5 - it runs about > 50-60c on normal use but compiling (for example) webkit-gtk and > Libreoffice causes the temp to go way too high. I have a script checking > the cpu temps - at something like 65 deg it switches from performance to > the powersave governer (helps some), at greater than 71c it hibernates. > After a cooldown I restart it and it continues on. If I move the 71c > trippoint to 72c, it will reliably hard lockup after a short delay. > Ideally, I would like to be able to tune MAKEOPTS dynamicly to reduce > the number of cpu cores to help further but I dont believe portage can > do that.
Sounds like a useful script, but is 71C really too high? The fan in this i5 Intel NUC, admittedly much younger (just a few months old), doesn't start until the CPU temperature reaches 90C. No doubt you've done your research, so by all means ignore me if you want to. > I am in the process of setting up distcc to try and help distribute the > load while limiting the i5 to -J2 which I hope can speed things up > whilst still keeping its cool. That makes me think a bit. I used to use a 24-thread Ryzen M9 as a compute host with smaller machines being NFS-mounted into a chroot, which worked well, but that beast has become too noisy. Now I just use the Gentoo packages where I can. -- Regards, Peter.
