Re: cpupower

2018-06-25 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 25 June 2018, Howard Howell sent: > This typically requires more than just vacuuming the outside. > Typically you have to remove the heatsink and fan, and use a brush or > q-tips to ferret out the various dustbunnies in the nooks and > crannies that are near the CPU. Ah ye

Re: cpupower

2018-06-25 Thread Howard Howell
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 03:55 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, JD sent: > > Reason I am posting this is because the normal speed of the cores > > is 2.8GHz, and that is causing numerous kerneloops interrupts > > (overheating). > > Fans are at full speed all the time

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:26:04 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/24/2018 09:13 PM, Doug wrote: > > What makes you folks think that a computer will run faster in a > > refrigerated environment?  Only if it was too hot to begin with > > should it make any difference. > > Remember, this thread started

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 09:13 PM, Doug wrote: What makes you folks think that a computer will run faster in a refrigerated environment?  Only if it was too hot to begin with should it make any difference. Remember, this thread started out talking about working around a CPU overheating. ___

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Doug
On 06/24/2018 11:10 PM, stan wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:45:27 +0930 Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, stan sent: I've thought about buying one of those little fridges and putting the system in it. I remember seeing a page or two about people doing that, many years

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:45:27 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, stan sent: > > I've thought about buying one of those little fridges and putting > > the system in it. > > I remember seeing a page or two about people doing that, many years > ago. Though I can't r

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 06:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Of course you could look in /lib/systemd/system to learn it is rc-local  :-) :-) Thank you; that worked. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 09:21, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/24/2018 05:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Read my reply to poc.  It is a "static" service.  It doesn't need to be >> "enabled". > > I too have an rc.local script, but it's just a stub, and doesn't even have > #!/bin/sh in it that's just a stub in case I ever

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 06:16 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: If you want to debug it the easy way do this: create /usr/local/bin/slowcpus and make it executable and put the commands in it and test it from the cmd line: Then in rc.local do this: That's a good idea. I remember reading, once, that you should on

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 05:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Read my reply to poc.  It is a "static" service.  It doesn't need to be "enabled". I too have an rc.local script, but it's just a stub, and doesn't even have #!/bin/sh in it that's just a stub in case I ever need it. systemctl status rc.local.servic

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Roger Heflin
If you want to debug it the easy way do this: create /usr/local/bin/slowcpus and make it executable and put the commands in it and test it from the cmd line: Then in rc.local do this: /usr/local/bin/slowcpus > /tmp/slowcpu.out 2>&1 On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/2

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 08:11, Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: >> Note that you now have to explicitly enable rc.local to make it run >> at boot time: >> >> # systemctl enable rc-local.service > I just did that, and nothing more (I hadn't, yet, got around t

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, stan sent: > I've thought about buying one of those little fridges and putting the > system in it. I remember seeing a page or two about people doing that, many years ago. Though I can't recall what their success was like. I'd be concerned about moisture/cond

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Note that you now have to explicitly enable rc.local to make it run > at boot time: > > # systemctl enable rc-local.service I just did that, and nothing more (I hadn't, yet, got around to making a rc.local file and putting anything

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 07:20, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:07:52 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I don't recall how I found my mistake.  I do remember putting in a few >> "touch" >> commands in the script to create files and thereby narrow down where in the >> script >> I'd gone wrong. > Two t

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 06:53, JD wrote: > # systemctl -l start rc-local > # echo $? > 0 > # > # systemctl -l status rc-local.service > rc-local.service - /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility >    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; enabled) >    Active: active (exited) (Result: exit-code) si

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 03:55 PM, JD wrote: Well, rc-local.service cannot be instrumented with echoes from the shell, which is run with option -x in /etc/rc.d/rc.local Maybe it would be best to do this: start off with date > /root/log.txt (This tells you when you booted and gets rid of any previous f

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:07:52 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > I don't recall how I found my mistake.  I do remember putting in a few "touch" > commands in the script to create files and thereby narrow down where in the > script > I'd gone wrong. Two things that often cause rc.local failures: 1. Having

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 06:53, JD wrote: > Well, this is interesting: > > # systemctl -l start rc-local > # echo $? > 0 Which means the "systemctl" command succeeded. > # > # systemctl -l status rc-local.service > rc-local.service - /etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility >    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/syste

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2018 04:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2018 03:12 PM, JD wrote: ​I have enabled rc-local: sudo systemctl enable rc-local which is supposed to automagically execute /etc/rc.d/rc.local during bootup, but for some strange reason, rc.local is not being automagcally executed, even thoug

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 06:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/25/18 05:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 11:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: > > > > On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > > On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: > > > > > >

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2018 04:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/25/18 05:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 11:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: But I do not want to do this loop every tim

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 06:12, JD wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Joe Zeff > wrote: > > On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: > > > On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: > > > But I do not want to d

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 03:12 PM, JD wrote: ​I have enabled rc-local: sudo systemctl enable rc-local which is supposed to automagically execute /etc/rc.d/rc.local during bootup, but for some strange reason, rc.local is not being automagcally executed, even though (as I explained already, it is an executabl

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/25/18 05:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 11:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: >>> On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: > But I do not want to do this loop every time I boot up. > I want to ha

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread JD
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: > >> >> On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >>> On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: >>> But I do not want to do this loop every time I boot up. I want to have set once and for all!!! >>>

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 11:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: > > > > On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: > > > > > > > > But I do not want to do this loop every time I boot up. > > > > I want to have set once and for all!!! > >

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:27:04 -0600 JD wrote: > Manpage of cpu power make no mention of the > selection of governor. > How can set the governor to be the user mode governor > instead of the performance governor and not the ondemand governor? You can check which governor was compiled as default in

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:27:04 -0600 JD wrote: > Manpage of cpu power make no mention of the > selection of governor. > How can set the governor to be the user mode governor > instead of the performance governor and not the ondemand governor? This might get you closer. I didn't see anything direc

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread stan
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:55:23 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, JD sent: > > Reason I am posting this is because the normal speed of the cores > > is 2.8GHz, and that is causing numerous kerneloops interrupts > > (overheating). > > Fans are at full speed all the tim

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2018, JD sent: > Reason I am posting this is because the normal speed of the cores > is 2.8GHz, and that is causing numerous kerneloops interrupts > (overheating). > Fans are at full speed all the time, as I can hear them :) :) Sounds like you have inadequate cooling

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 10:55 AM, JD wrote: On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: But I do not want to do this loop every time I boot up. I want to have set once and for all!!! There's probably a proper way to do that, but until somebody finds it, put that into a

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2018 11:37 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: But I do not want to do this loop every time I boot up. I want to have set once and for all!!! There's probably a proper way to do that, but until somebody finds it, put that into a shell script and call it from rc.l

Re: cpupower

2018-06-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/24/2018 10:27 AM, JD wrote: But I do not want to do this loop every time I boot up. I want to have set once and for all!!! There's probably a proper way to do that, but until somebody finds it, put that into a shell script and call it from rc.local.