On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:51 +0800, mel wrote: > 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).
[snip] Adjusting 'niceness' and distcc isn't a method of bringing temperature down. They may have side effects that bring the temp down, but that's purely coincidental, depending on your setup. nice will only have effect if you're doing something that has a higher priority. When you leave your machine, then the make processes will take as much cpu as possible again. distcc will only make the temperature lower if your jobs take a long time to process over the connection. Unless you make the compile 100% on the desktop. However, some ebuilds disable distcc altogether, and distcc isn't used for ./configure scripts. > The fans are all working fine. If the laptop was designed correctly, it shouldn't matter how hot it gets (given that it should be designed to run at 100%). If it isn't crashing, then don't worry about the temperature. If it is crashing, then use speedstep or athcool. Also, take the fans apart and try cleaning them out, if there's lots of dust / cobwebs in there. And make sure they really are working correctly. For a long time I thought my fans were running at maximum speed, until one hot day when I was doing some compiling in a non aircon room, with the laptop on a pillow (possibly blocking air-flow). And then I heard a what sounded like a jet engine warming up, but it was just the two fans running at top speed, which they'd never done until that moment. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
