Gilbert Sanford [gilbertz....@gmail.com] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > > Gilbert Sanford [gilbertz....@gmail.com] wrote: > >> > >> You may have noticed "acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 107 degC" > >> in my > >> dmesg . . . it always says that, and that's probably where it was before I > >> disabled processor cores. I don't think the GPU is doing anything, but the > >> processor was definitely cooking. My unit is very comfortable now, and > >> OpenBSD simply flies. This is a very fast box compared to what I've had in > >> the past. Perhaps the poster from Poland can acquire the right kind > >> of hardware. > > > > I wonder what temp Windows and Liunx run at with all the cores enabled. > > Is there any specific output you'd like to have? I've already enabled > the cores, > and in 5 minutes after booting OpenBSD (today's snapshot) with bsd.mp, the > left > side of the laptop was hot enough to put water on a slow boil. I've > been up with > Linuxmint 17 for almost 20 minutes with all cores enabled, and my laptop has > cooled down to the point where it feels like I'm running OpenBSD with a single > processor. >
I remember there was some talk about trying deeper wait states on the newer CPUs to help here. Not sure if that is the only issue or maybe there's some ACPI based feature or setting that would help too. That sounds hot.
