retitle 310931 overheating cpu due to !acpid tags 310931 -moreinfo tags 310931 d-i severity 310931 wishlist reassign 310931 tasksel thanks
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:57:17PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: > > tags 310931 moreinfo > > stop > > > > any progress on the matter? > > can you reproduce it with the 2.6.12 linux image from unstable? > > First of all, the reported situation happened only before I installed > acpid package. After that, during regular operation in runlevel 2, when > userspace acpid is running, there are no more kacpid CPU hogs. > > I also got the impression that the CPU fan switches to higher RPM on > high CPU utilization only when acpid is running. It might be that in > runlevel 1 (i.e. when the user-space acpid is not running), the CPU was > constantly overheated, and that in turn caused the kacpid CPU hog. hmm so the bug report isn't exactly against a kernel-image. i'm not sure debian is already preventing the unexerienced user from overheating it's cpu. for now i'll reassign to tasksel so the bug gets on the radar of the debian-installer team. maybe we already install acpid for desktop systems, but maybe that should be paired with some hardware detection of d-i (apm or acpi too old) cc the debian-installer list for feedback. > I installed the 2.6.12 package the day before yesterday, so I will try > to test this some more in runlevel 1 today, if you want. no thanks i believe you. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]