CURRENT Kernel makes the system run very very hot
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 8 14:53:57 PST 2007
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
> There something weird going on - at minimal workloads my system gets very
> very hot - The system is watercooled, 4 Fan's etc its a quad core QX6700 -
> make buildkernel - will make the fans run at highest speed (its impossibly
> to be in the room at the same time).
>
> There are no problems when running other OS'es - Are anybody else having
> this kind of problems (PS its a relatively new thing - maybe 2 weeks)?
I don't know what kernel configuration you're using, but by default the
GENERIC kernel on -CURRENT has a lot of debugging options enabled, doing
things like lock order checking, memory scrubbing, etc. Does the same box
"run hot" with a 7.0 beta install?
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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