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Message-ID: <2591363.mvXUDI8C0e@lenovo.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20210605193726.5d8d9843@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> References: <20210605193726.5d8d9843@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11771580.O9o76ZdvQC"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-PPP-Message-ID: <20210605232152.1267513.82855@cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk> X-PPP-Vhost: kintzios.com X-Barracuda-Connect: cloud220.unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk[149.255.60.183] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1622935312 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 X-Barracuda-URL: https://149.255.60.66:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups? X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at thundermail.uk X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 1573 X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=1.9 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.90448 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Archives-Salt: 861f48c4-332f-482f-aca5-fbfbc1a7bab2 X-Archives-Hash: 0f0fd2ec85a24ea9198781c70cc4d0d4 --nextPart11771580.O9o76ZdvQC Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; protected-headers="v1" From: Michael To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: confabulate@kintzios.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups? Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:21:42 +0100 Message-ID: <2591363.mvXUDI8C0e@lenovo.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20210605193726.5d8d9843@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> References: <20210605193726.5d8d9843@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> On Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:37:26 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop > > > > with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would > > default to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash > > script that manually put the CPU into "userspace" mode, and selected > > the maximum available CPU speed. I finally got Youtube with steady > > playback at 1080p... YAY! I'd leave it at max speed during my waking > > hours, and drop it to min speed at night before going to bed. > > > > I saw the occasional mysterious lockups as I mentioned in recent > > > > threads. I wonder if pushing the CPU to max speed most of the day > > would cause overheating and lockups. I'm leaving my current, more > > powerfull, machine in "conservative" mode. > > The CPU will automatically throttle when a certain temperature is > reached. This may be the cause of the lockups. > > > Should I stay in conservative mode? Or forget about speed control > > > > entirely, and let "Intel Speed Step" handle things for me? Also, is > > there a way to enable CPU throttling based on temperature? > > Have you tried ondemand mode? It ramps up the speed faster than > conservative mode and drops equally fast if there is not much to do. I > have it enabled everywhere and didn't notice any problems. If thermal throttling takes place there will be entries in dmesg and syslog to this effect. --nextPart11771580.O9o76ZdvQC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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