[gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

  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.

  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?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications