Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Afaik all modern CPUs are fitted with mechanism that will slow them down or turn them off when they get too got, those mechanisms are on die and I'm pretty sure you can't disable them from the OS. 2014-05-19 8:07 GMT+03:00 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Efraim Flashner
Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19. my netbook generally is in the mid 70s for temperature. When doing something intensive, such as starting chrome or installing a new kernel (update-initramfs or rebuilding modules) it'll go up to 99C, and then go back down over time. I have found

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Efraim, On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com wrote: Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19. No, it's not. When you run the nice -19 it sets it to the lowest possible priority. I see these processes in htop where the nice is set at 19 and I

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-05-19 12:55 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: Hi Efraim, On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com wrote: Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19. No, it's not. When you run the nice -19 it sets it to the lowest possible

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Eliyahu, On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:40 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.ilwrote: 2014-05-19 12:55 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: Hi Efraim, On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com wrote: Also, nice -19 is higher priority

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: I may be misreading you but: nice values go between -20 and 20 where negative numbers have a *higher* priority then positive numbers, it's a rating of how nice my program is to others, so -20 is absolutely rude to the others and doesn't share

Re: CPU Overheating Problem When Running 4 CPU Intensive Threads with Latest Untained Kernel

2014-05-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:55:23PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Efraim, On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:19:23 +0300 Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com wrote: Also, nice -19 is higher priority than nice 19. No, it's not. When you run the nice -19 it sets it to the lowest possible