On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 23:51, mel wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Gentoo on Compaq Presario 1500 for almost a year now, and > everything is fine and dandy except for one thing: the CPU gets hot > quickly whenever I emerge large packages (xorg, mysql, kernels). > > Currently I don't have any control apps (speedfreq, cpufreq), and I > resort to distcc (which keeps the CPU temp somewhere between 65 deg C > to 68 deg C - without it it goes as high as 74 deg C). Another thing > that I do is Ctrl-S to suspend the compile, let the CPU cools down, > and Ctrl-Q to continue. > > The fans are all working fine. > > Question: What other things I can do to cool the CPU while emerging? > Will using cpufreq/speedfreq helps?
I don't know about those, I suggest changing the niceness of portage. Put something like this in your /etc/make.conf file: PORTAGE_NICENESS=<put niceness number here, 20 or less> -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- [email protected] mailing list
