The MLB in your mac has sensors that will automatically shutdown your mac if it ever got to a critical heat. This is never likely to happen. I had a 2009 mac mini that ran for a couple of years sandwiched between an Apple Airport base station and an ASDL modem, I never turned it off in 3 years. never had an issue. it did all my compiling etc. On 6 Apr 2012, at 18:58, Tim Johnson wrote:
> I use a 2012 Mac Mini with OSX Lion. > > I haven't run selfupdate in some time. > > My observations in the past is that this machine runs alarmingly hot > during long compiles. I recall being very nervous during the last > selfupdate with temperature raising to as 180 F or more. > > I'm wondering if it is possible to do selfupdate a step or > dependency at a time. That way, I could allow the machine to cool > off before resuming. > > Any comments are welcome. > > FYI: I am a former C programmer and have deep in the recesses of my > memory some acquaintance with compile issues and makefiles. > > FYI2: I will post to the Mac Mini forum the heat issue and see what > other Mini users have to say. > > thanks in advance > -- > Tim > tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com > http://www.akwebsoft.com > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
