From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 9 21:56: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D13152D7 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id VAA17840; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:55:46 -0800 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:55:46 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy To: David Bushong Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU voltage (was Re: load spike strangeness) In-Reply-To: <20000108223540.A58762@Bushong.NET> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna.lyris.com X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: david@bushong.net,rjoseph@nwlink.com,freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My machine is not overclocked and I get similar results Motherboard Temp Voltages 26C / 78F / 299K Vcore1: +1.953V Vcore2: +1.953V Fan Speeds + 3.3V: +3.375V + 5.0V: +4.906V 1: 3013 rpm +12.0V: +12.625V 2: 3708 rpm -12.0V: -13.562V 3: 0 rpm - 5.0V: -5.584V On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, David Bushong wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:03:44PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Awhile back I was having trouble getting through kernel compiles, the > > machine would reboot during the compile. Someone on some newsgroup said > > "are you overclocking?". I checked my settings. No, I wasn't > > overclocking. But my voltage setting looked wrong. It was set at 2.2 > > volts or whatever and I thought it was supposed to be at 2.4. So I > > changed it to 2.4. My problem was solved. I was flying through the > > compiles. Then I was looking through my motherboard manual and realized > > that it was supposed to be set at 2.2 after all. I prefer it the way it > > is though. Do you think there is anything wrong with that? > > > Hmm. lmmon -i produces some scary results: > > Voltages > > Vcore1: +2.781V > Vcore2: +1.469V > + 3.3V: +3.312V > + 5.0V: +4.932V > +12.0V: +12.250V <-- > -12.0V: -13.125V <-- > - 5.0V: -5.532V <-- > > Those look disturbingly off.. maybe this much drift is common, I don't know. > However, I never have any problem with the machine, other than this benign > occurance.. and I do tend to tax it every now and again (couple ports > building, world building, mp3 encodes, the usual). Ack, can't believe I > forgot to mention I'm running with soft updates enabled on both drives > (and root). While I was reading this thread btw, I got another spike, and > by measuring pixel widths in xload, came up with 30 pixels @ 10 seconds per > pixel, or 300 seconds, or exactly 5 minutes, which seems awfully round. > > Re: overclocking thing: ok, people, I know it's my machine. Take a chill > pill. I have a very stable CPU, a well ventilated machine, and a jumperless > motherboard that makes it very easy to switch settings. However, as I have > said, this machine has been rock solid (except for during a few of those > sketchy 3.1 release ;) I'll go ahead and try turning off the overclocking > and see if > a) it affects the voltage (which does worry me a bit) > b) I continue to see this load strangeness (I suspect I will) > > --David Bushong > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message