On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:01:06PM -0000, cesar wrote:
> On my Linux box, after running a sim after a few hundred iterations or 
> so, I start getting the high temperature warning. It probably has to 
> do with the internal cooling/fan. Has anyone encountered this? Also, 
> yesterday, on my Windows laptop I ran a simulation with 50 options (I 
> forgot to trim it down and was playing something else in the 
> foreground) so the fan turned on, etc. Suddenly after about 15+ 
> minutes the laptop shut off, and when I tried to turn it on again it 
> shut off almost immediately. I had to let it cool down for a few 
> minutes afterwards. I know Quackle is very computationally intensive, 
> but has anyone had similar experiences?

It's not like quackle can work the cpu any harder than a busy loop.  
Throttling is throttling.  Don't blame quackle, the innocent victim in 
your overheating scandal.  Look suspiciously at your hardware, or maybe 
at your climate.  (Global warming?) Maybe you need a fancy liquid 
cooling system like this one:

  http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1104341

Plus, yummy fries!

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