Re: [PATCH] 2.6, 2.4, Nforce2, Experimental idle halt workaroundinstead of apic ack delay.

[Arjen Verweij]

Hi,

I added a section about Wake-on-LAN on my humble website. Most of you
never seem to turn your boxes off, but maybe it could proof useful in the
future.

http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/wol.html

Regards,

Arjen

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Arjen Verweij wrote:

> Yes, but for me the temp diff in Celsius between idle and load for the CPU
> is almost 20 degrees. This has a dramatic impact on the case temperature
> when it is closed because I haven't added fans in the top of the case yet.
>
> So you see I value the disconnect quite a bit. Maybe when I get better
> cooling I will disable it altogether in the BIOS so this headache will
> disappear forever ;)
>
> Arjen
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Craig Bradney wrote:
>
> > Hi Arjen
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > So far I have seen this only once, and I don't know what causes it.
> > >
> > > Ross, I prefer using your old patch because it keeps my temperature within
> > > reasonable bounds when the case is closed. Sorry.
> > >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > I have put the idle=C1halt patch that Ross released a little while back
> > now into Gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3 as I reported to the list yesterday. I
> > no longer use the old apic_tack=2 patch. I have been playing silly
> > buggers with hardware, but so far the PC has made it to 11 hours and now
> > 7 hours with no issues.
> >
> > After those 11 hours I decided I'd change the PC setup in here and
> > disconnected a fan and a hard drive and moved my server s/w (apache etc)
> > to this PC so I only have one in here fpr now.
> >
> > Right now, CPU is at 34C which is only 1-3C higher than with the other
> > patch, including having one less fan sucking air out the back of the
> > box. Motherboard is actually lower (27C) than before (29C). Ambient room
> > temp is normal.
> >
> > After those 11 hours, I am quite sure that on normal use (ie not
> > compiling) the motherboard and cpu was 1-2C lower than with apic_tack=2.
> >
> > regards
> > Craig
> >
>
>

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