Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:56:12 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Mikael Ikivesi <mikael.ikivesi@pp.inet.fi> Subject: Re: 2 core dumps Message-ID: <73945518-70B0-415C-87B4-F014F1309DF6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660802240455v54d667d1v4a1e0841d4cf6505@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080219104532.0dc2b565@chaos.nox> <47BDB92C.9050808@d80.iso100.no> <20080222113646.2dbb9ec1@chaos.nox> <86zlttqmc9.fsf@ds4.des.no> <1203686245.63435.12.camel@RabbitsDen> <86oda9oxxe.fsf@ds4.des.no> <1203692492.63435.16.camel@RabbitsDen> <86ablsabd0.fsf@ds4.des.no> <47C00F20.2090700@d80.iso100.no> <1203846877.7104.17.camel@localhost> <d763ac660802240455v54d667d1v4a1e0841d4cf6505@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 24, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I'd suggest that you graph the whatever temperatures your laptop can > report under both FreeBSD and Linux. > > Laptops do get warm - especially if people do dumb things like > restrict airflow to where its needed - but if its getting too warm to > use then something's amiss. > > Powerd and friends job isn't to prevent the CPU from overheating, its > to step the CPU down a notch when its not being asked to do intensive > tasks. If your laptop can't sustain intensive tasks without crashing > then there's a fault in the laptop, either the design or your specific > unit. > > Graph the temperatures and see if the laptop runs noticably warmer > under FreeBSD than Linux. You might just find that "more work" is > being done under FreeBSD and its causing your hardware to fail. > > The backtraces are useless if your hardware is at fault. Discount the > hardware being at fault first. > > 2c, > > > adrian > (Who gave up trying to make this crap work on PCs and just bought an > iBook..) Yeah, well the thing is too that many OS'es will work your hardware differently. Solaris for example will work your hardware a lot more than Linux / FreeBSD. Cheers, -Garrett
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