Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

2013-01-23 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 16 January 2013 01:42, Steven Shiau wrote: > Hi Andreas, > Thanks for sharing that. > Your solution is great. For sure it a great feature we should add in the > expert mode. Besides this, I think another option solution is to find a > way to know the temperature is too high then accordi

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

2013-01-22 Thread Steven Shiau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andreas, On 01/18/2013 06:29 AM, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > Hi Steven! > > It would of course be optimal to throttle the CPU clock according to the > current temperature, but this is exactly what the kernel attempts to do. > Unfortunately this ap

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

2013-01-17 Thread Andreas Winkelbauer
Hi Steven! It would of course be optimal to throttle the CPU clock according to the current temperature, but this is exactly what the kernel attempts to do. Unfortunately this approach may fail under heavy load for several reasons (BIOS bugs, bad ACPI implementation, inaccurate sensors, insufficie

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

2013-01-15 Thread Steven Shiau
Hi Andreas, Thanks for sharing that. Your solution is great. For sure it a great feature we should add in the expert mode. Besides this, I think another option solution is to find a way to know the temperature is too high then accordingly reduce the CPU speed. We should discuss more about this.

[Clonezilla-live] Thermal Problems and a Solution

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Winkelbauer
Dear all, several users have reported hardware failures with clonezilla due to thermal problems, in particular with notebooks (see [1-3]). I also have seen these issues with my HP 2540p laptop. It seems that the cooling system of some notebooks is insufficient when the system is run at full CPU lo