Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Evan Langlois wrote:
> > C). Temp changes are very fast cooling almost a degree a second once
> > the system goes idle (measured with lm_sensors at a serial terminal -
> > I can watch it cool down).
>
> ONE DEGREE A SECOND?!?!?!?!
> You're not afraid your system'll break? I mean; these fast temperature
> changes may cause cracks and all. Damn, I wish my english was a bit
> better.
> Try heating up a bottle and then cool it down very quickly.
One degree a second seems reasonable to me. Part of the kernel boot
sequence warms my laptop's CPU enough to turn on the fan. And that
takes less than a second. I think it's the IDE CD-ROM detection. Must
take a look for unnecessarily busy loops in that code.
-- Jamie
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Jan 15 2000 - 21:00:19 EST