On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> wrote: > What are the Dell system specs? > > ( Heatsink on a CPU? .... How old is this system ? ) >
Dell Precision T7600, two 16 thread Xeons, 192GB of RAM, two Quadro cards and a Tesla card. The system is a few years old at this point. Old enough that the thermal compound could have hardened, which is why I replaced it. > On 04/19/2018 08:22 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: >> I was compiling Gentoo, as is custom, but found my old new server to >> be thermal cycling wildly. The fans will turn on full blast and >> machine check errors will be generated if I use approximately more >> than one third to half of the cores. The cores then throttle >> themselves, only to immediately overheat once the throttle lifts. This >> seems to persist on Windows, though Windows seems to be much more >> conservative in its CPU usage, and triggers MCEs less. >> >> Any suggestions? I repasted the CPU and heatsink interface, and the >> machine is not loaded with dust. It was hardly ever used. The MCEs >> seem to be a "normal" part of operation, though less normal on >> Windows. >> >> Is there a way to at least mimic the conservative CPU usage that >> Windows exhibits? >> >> Cheers, >> R0b0t1 >> >
