Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:31:35PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> As for 'unexpected' tasks, look at /etc/cron.* (daily, monthly, etc).
Will do.
> As I understand it, you sleep almost on top of the machine and want it
> to keep running 24/7. Why you want to do this is none of my business,
> but apparently you won't do much number-crunching.
Heh, fair enough zinger. However I don't think you appreciate how loud
one of these overclocker's fans (Thermaltake Xaser Spark 7) @ 6400 RPMs
actually is: imagine a hairdryer. Just sleeping in the same room (even
on the other side of the room is difficult).
I've figured out what to do: I enabled cpufreq/p4-clockmod and enabled
the powersave governor, like for laptops. I underclock the overclocked
machine while I sleep.
Now I can turn the fan down to "quite quiet" (3000 RPMs) and compile hte
kernel at 46C (before it was 55C). So I can sleep peacefully.
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