From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 14:31:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF2516A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:31:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (alpha.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680B043D2F for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i1TMVYNv056941; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:31:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)i1TMVXEg056938; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:31:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:31:33 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Vincent Poy In-Reply-To: <20040229122142.K8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Message-ID: <20040229172746.V52152@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20040229122142.K8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld times X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:31:41 -0000 On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > If you're hitting 80+ degrees, your CPU is going to throttle to keep the > > temperature down. This is likely to be the cause (or at least a good > > contributor) of the large buildworld times you're seeing. You might want > > to look into improved cooling, possibly water-cooling. :-) > > This is actually a notebook and not a desktop machine so the temps > are higher than the desktop counterparts as my desktop P4C3.2 at 3.8Ghz > runs at 50C full load. The P4M-2.6Ghz mobile processor runs at 63C even > when idle. It might be the Thermal Interface Material just needs > replacing or something. Is there a way to monitor the temperatures of the > CPU since I do notice the load time averages moves up the the 6.xx when > using -j4. There used to be a sysctl that displayed cpu temperature in tenths of a degree Kelvin. For some unknown reason, I can't seem to find it in a kernel from February 10th. Try doing some exploring in sysctl -a. Regards, Andy > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >