On Friday, 14 June 2024 15:18:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.
Some Intel chips will not throttle until the temperatures have exceeded 103°C. 71°C should be considered normal operating temperature, but as always ... it depends. > > 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. Liquid cooling would have made it as quiet as a church mouse. ;-)
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