Re: high temperature with gnumach and hurd

[Farid Hajji <farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net>]

> Hi there,
> 
> just wanted to tell you, that the temperature of my cpu is raising to
> very high values, while having the hurd system running.
> 
> If I am working with linux, the temperature of the cpu is somewhere
> below 60°C (under heavy load), but if I boot the hurd thing and don't do
> anything, the temperature raises to higher 60's and the bios temperature
> warning starts howling.

This is intended behaviour: GNU/Hurd is a *hot* OS :-)

> Did anyone else recognize this problem?

Maybe GNUmach should idle/hlt the CPU when all tasks/threads
are idle?

> Thanks, 
> Jochen

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