keeping CPU usage low
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Sep 15 09:12:23 PDT 2005
On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Atis wrote:
> Is there a way to make the kernel HALT the CPU regularly even
> when it has got runnable processes? Sort of like increasing the idle
> thread priority?
>
> The problem is with one my computers which has a buggy CPU. No
> matter how many or how powerful fans I install, when there's
> a CPU usage of 100% for over ~5 minutes it just overheats
> and crashes the system.
If your system hardware supports ACPI power management, you might be
able to use the powerd/cpufreq stuff to throttle your CPU to a lower
speed. You might also try underclocking the CPU in your BIOS and/or
or set it to a lower clock divider depending on the details of what
your hardware supports.
--
-Chuck
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