Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:Sometime today I will turn off i8k and let you know of the behavior. I don't remember the default because I scourer the internet for howtos before I install debian on any laptop to look for pit falls before I start. So, right from day one, I just went and got i8kutils. Besides with a low (wow, how far we have come!) level cpu like this, why run amd64? I would gain nothing, can't even run vms with vitalization turned on. I would get Geek points, and that IS worth thinking about..........On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com> wrote:Do you ever hear your fans blow?Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000 random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. The CPU temperature went up to 70C, and then came back down to 40C after I halted the silly computation. Hm, but the fan seems to be blowing all the time, except when I just turn on the machine after it's been in a cool place and off for a long time. Or should it blow harder when I do computations? I didn't notice a change. - Jordi G. H.
One more note on this "low level cpu": I was impressed! I had to really really push this thing to get it to heat up. Running one make-kpkg was not enough to push it to turn on the 2nd fan and the cpu was only running at about 55% with the governor set to performance. Kinda makes sense since this is a 64bit CPU and I was pushing 32bit code around in a 32bit userland. Any other Dell Vostro users out there with debian? Have you had any issues with heat?
-- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser