Re: CURRENT Kernel makes the system run very very hot

From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:22:18 +0000
On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:18:29 Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:

PS. Windows Vista - reports temperatures in the 40-45C range when Idle (tat.exe)

> > 
> > And 'top -S' reports what?
> > 
> 
> As I said its relatively new - I am running root on ZFS (and everything else) and 
> had a reproduceable deadlock when I was using ZFS of Nvidia ATARAID so I 
> dropped the ATA RAID and are now running ZFS on the raw disks - It started occuring some
> point after that (last two weeks). 
> 
> The funny thing is if I break into DDB and wait app. 30 Sec the fans starts spinning up and 
> running at very high speeds - e.g nothing should be running
> 
> Top -S -H -c 1
> 
> last pid:  1334;  load averages:  0.04,  0.17,  0.13  up 0+00:08:50    17:22:28
> 207 processes: 6 running, 183 sleeping, 18 waiting
> 
> Mem: 251M Active, 21M Inact, 475M Wired, 13M Cache, 592K Buf, 3155M Free
> Swap: 32G Total, 32G Free
> 
> 
>   PID USERNAME   PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>    11 root       171 ki31     0K    64K RUN    0  11:12 100.00% {idle: cpu0}
>    11 root       171 ki31     0K    64K RUN    2  11:12 100.00% {idle: cpu2}
>    11 root       171 ki31     0K    64K CPU1   1  11:12 100.00% {idle: cpu1}
>    11 root       171 ki31     0K    64K CPU3   3  11:12 99.37% {idle: cpu3}
>  1105 root        46    0   100M 51516K select 3   0:07  1.95% Xorg
>    12 root       -24    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {swi6: Giant tas
>    12 root       -24    -     0K   288K WAIT   1   0:12  0.00% {swi6: task queu
>    12 root       -28    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {swi5: +}
>    12 root       -36    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {swi3: vm}
>    12 root       -40    -     0K   288K WAIT   1   0:12  0.00% {swi2: cambio}
>    12 root       -44    -     0K   288K WAIT   1   0:12  0.00% {swi1: net}
>    12 root       -48    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {swi0: sio}
>    12 root       -52    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {irq9: acpi0}
>    12 root       -60    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {irq1: atkbd0}
>    12 root       -60    -     0K   288K WAIT   3   0:12  0.00% {irq12: psm0}
>    12 root       -64    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {irq21: ohci0+}
>    12 root       -64    -     0K   288K WAIT   0   0:12  0.00% {irq20: atapci2}
>    12 root       -64    -     0K   288K WAIT   2   0:12  0.00% {irq23: atapci1}
> 
> 
> Sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp - shows
> 
> dev.cpu.0.temperature: 70
> dev.cpu.1.temperature: 71
> dev.cpu.2.temperature: 68
> dev.cpu.3.temperature: 69
> 
> I was trying to avoid to go back to running "pure UFS" again - but I guess I have to inorder
> to eliminate ZFS as the potential source
> 
> 
> > FWIW - the opposite experience here.
> > Core-2 Quad QX6600 on Asus and Gigabyte, Core-D dual on Tyan.
> > 
> > Stock Intel cooler & fans, case fans on variable-speed MB connectors, PSU's with 
> > 'smart' fans.
> > 
> > Fans run at nowhere near full-speed even with a long make -j 12.
> > 
> > Under 'average load', not yet as quiet as my PowerBook G4, but getting close to 
> > our C3 MB with constant-speed fans.
> > 
> > Something in the cooling water?  Bacteria? Goldfish turds?
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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