From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 14:47:19 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 849C516A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (alpha.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0E043D1F for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from alpha.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i1TMlBNv057058; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:47:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)i1TMlA03057055; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:47:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:47:10 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Vincent Poy In-Reply-To: <20040229123826.B8264-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Message-ID: <20040229174242.H52152@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20040229123826.B8264-100000@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 22:47:19 -0000 On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > > 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. > > Is this the one you're talking about? > > root@bigbang [2:38pm][/home/vince] >> sysctl -a hw.acpi.thermal > hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 > hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3407 ^^^^ 340.7K or 67.55C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: -1 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 3672 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 > > I thought there was a utility that displayed it in Celsius or > something. When in doubt, convert using Google! :-) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=340.7+Kelvin+in+Centigrade&btnG=Google+Search Regards, Andy > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > > > > Cheers, > Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] > WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] > San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] > Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin >