CURRENT Kernel makes the system run very very hot
Thomas Sparrevohn
Thomas.Sparrevohn at btinternet.com
Sat Dec 8 13:22:22 PST 2007
On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:18:29 Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
PS. Windows Vista - reports temperatures in the 40-45C range when Idle (tat.exe)
> >
> > And 'top -S' reports what?
> >
>
> As I said its relatively new - I am running root on ZFS (and everything else) and
> had a reproduceable deadlock when I was using ZFS of Nvidia ATARAID so I
> dropped the ATA RAID and are now running ZFS on the raw disks - It started occuring some
> point after that (last two weeks).
>
> The funny thing is if I break into DDB and wait app. 30 Sec the fans starts spinning up and
> running at very high speeds - e.g nothing should be running
>
> Top -S -H -c 1
>
> last pid: 1334; load averages: 0.04, 0.17, 0.13 up 0+00:08:50 17:22:28
> 207 processes: 6 running, 183 sleeping, 18 waiting
>
> Mem: 251M Active, 21M Inact, 475M Wired, 13M Cache, 592K Buf, 3155M Free
> Swap: 32G Total, 32G Free
>
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
> 11 root 171 ki31 0K 64K RUN 0 11:12 100.00% {idle: cpu0}
> 11 root 171 ki31 0K 64K RUN 2 11:12 100.00% {idle: cpu2}
> 11 root 171 ki31 0K 64K CPU1 1 11:12 100.00% {idle: cpu1}
> 11 root 171 ki31 0K 64K CPU3 3 11:12 99.37% {idle: cpu3}
> 1105 root 46 0 100M 51516K select 3 0:07 1.95% Xorg
> 12 root -24 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {swi6: Giant tas
> 12 root -24 - 0K 288K WAIT 1 0:12 0.00% {swi6: task queu
> 12 root -28 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {swi5: +}
> 12 root -36 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {swi3: vm}
> 12 root -40 - 0K 288K WAIT 1 0:12 0.00% {swi2: cambio}
> 12 root -44 - 0K 288K WAIT 1 0:12 0.00% {swi1: net}
> 12 root -48 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {swi0: sio}
> 12 root -52 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {irq9: acpi0}
> 12 root -60 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {irq1: atkbd0}
> 12 root -60 - 0K 288K WAIT 3 0:12 0.00% {irq12: psm0}
> 12 root -64 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {irq21: ohci0+}
> 12 root -64 - 0K 288K WAIT 0 0:12 0.00% {irq20: atapci2}
> 12 root -64 - 0K 288K WAIT 2 0:12 0.00% {irq23: atapci1}
>
>
> Sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp - shows
>
> dev.cpu.0.temperature: 70
> dev.cpu.1.temperature: 71
> dev.cpu.2.temperature: 68
> dev.cpu.3.temperature: 69
>
> I was trying to avoid to go back to running "pure UFS" again - but I guess I have to inorder
> to eliminate ZFS as the potential source
>
>
> > FWIW - the opposite experience here.
> > Core-2 Quad QX6600 on Asus and Gigabyte, Core-D dual on Tyan.
> >
> > Stock Intel cooler & fans, case fans on variable-speed MB connectors, PSU's with
> > 'smart' fans.
> >
> > Fans run at nowhere near full-speed even with a long make -j 12.
> >
> > Under 'average load', not yet as quiet as my PowerBook G4, but getting close to
> > our C3 MB with constant-speed fans.
> >
> > Something in the cooling water? Bacteria? Goldfish turds?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
>
>
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