Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-04-08 11:31:44 -0400, songbird wrote: > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to limit the amount of cputime that > > the hogging application is using? > > > > Google suggests that "nice" or "cpulimit" might do that. > > nice didn't do it. "nice -n 19" didn't make any change.

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/04/2023 07:12, songbird wrote: the bios did let me turn down the temperature so we'll see how that works next time i need to do an upload. I am curious if it affects /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone* I have never tried to do anything with this interface. I decided to look into sysfs

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-10 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: > songbird wrote: > ... >> i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this >> but no luck yet in my searches. > > ... > > of course the moment i send the message it comes to me that > perhaps the BIOS will let me do this, but i don't want to reboot > at the moment

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-09 Thread David Christensen
On 4/8/23 07:17, songbird wrote: i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to a range well below the maximum

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-09 Thread David Christensen
On 4/8/23 20:11, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/8/2023 8:01 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 4/8/23 07:17, songbird wrote:    i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website).  probably a bug, but it got me

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-09 Thread Emanuel Berg
Darac Marjal wrote: > As an alternative, you could try writing a small shell > script that works like the following (pseudocode): > >  STOP_TEMP=70 > START_TEMP=65 > JOB_RUNNING=1 > > while true: >cpu_temp=$(cat /sys/something/temperature) > >if JOB_RUNNING and cpu_temp > STOP_TEMP: >

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/04/2023 15:17, songbird wrote: i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to a range well below the

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/8/2023 8:01 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 4/8/23 07:17, songbird wrote:    i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website).  probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread David Christensen
On 4/8/23 07:17, songbird wrote: i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to a range well below the maximum

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Ash Joubert
On 09/04/2023 02:17, songbird wrote: i have an intel processor and it has the MAX which does prevent it from going higher (100C), but i'd like to keep it at 70C or lower. I recommend thermald, which I use to limit my fanless 65 W i7-7700 CPU to 80°C, passively cooled with heat pipes connected

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 9/4/23 00:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: I recommend to go fanless whenever possible. Computers should be silent. I have a fanless ARM router that even in high summer has no thermal problems (I am in Australia and I have no aircon). It does have a massive case bonded to the CPU I also

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 10:17 -0400, songbird wrote: > >   i have an intel processor and it has the MAX which does > prevent it from going higher (100C), but i'd like to keep it > at 70C or lower. > >   i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this > but no luck yet in my searches.

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: ... > Maybe don't use FTP but use rsync - that way you can come back to it > after a while and start again at the point you left off? i have no control over what is listening at the other end other than i sign on. i can limit the FTP software to fewer connections

Re: the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?")

2023-04-08 Thread Emanuel Berg
Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> What would happen, if we started a political movement based >> on nationalism and Unix? >> >> What would be the first thing we would do when we get >> installed as government? > > Annex the Netherlands, and take control of ASML. > Annex Taiwan, and take control of TSMC.

Re: the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?")

2023-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 1:29 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > >> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible. > >> Computers should be silent. > > > > Yeah, optimally ... > > What would happen, if we started a political movement based on > nationalism and Unix? > > What would be the first thing we would

the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?")

2023-04-08 Thread Emanuel Berg
>> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible. >> Computers should be silent. > > Yeah, optimally ... What would happen, if we started a political movement based on nationalism and Unix? What would be the first thing we would do when we get installed as government? Maybe close the border or

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Emanuel Berg
Stefan Monnier wrote: > I recommend to go fanless whenever possible. > Computers should be silent. Yeah, optimally ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal

[OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> i have a very tiny fan and heatsink that is right on > the processor. the rest of the system is fanless (no > fan for the PSU - no fancy GPU needed for what i do). > i almost bought a bigger heatsink so that the entire > thing could run without the fan, but the small fan > provided with the

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 08, 2023 at 11:43:53AM -0400, songbird wrote: > tv.debian wrote: > ... > > Also modern cpu do not suffer from high temperatures as much as the cpu > > of yore, they use up all the thermal headroom they have, then throttle > > the frequency/power to stay at that level. Of course the

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
t...@myposts.ovh wrote: ... > By using a fanner? well-trained chipmunk? songbird

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 15:26, songbird wrote: >> songbird wrote: >> ... >>> i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this >>> but no luck yet in my searches. > > Surely you don't need to set a temperature limit? If you > do, the cpu will still run (far too

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 16:39, songbird wrote: > only with this change to the FTP software has it become > an annoyance that made me go look for a way to deal with > it. > > filing a bug against the FTP software is also something > i should do, but i've not gotten that far yet. ;) Meantime,

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
tv.debian wrote: ... > Also modern cpu do not suffer from high temperatures as much as the cpu > of yore, they use up all the thermal headroom they have, then throttle > the frequency/power to stay at that level. Of course the rest of the > system has to deal with the residual heat as well if

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
Emanuel Berg wrote: ... > But install fans and see if you still get high temperatures if > you didn't (?) ... i have a very tiny fan and heatsink that is right on the processor. the rest of the system is fanless (no fan for the PSU - no fancy GPU needed for what i do). i almost bought a bigger

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
davidson wrote: ... > I would do > > $ man -k limit > > and see what looked interesting. prlimit(1) looks like it has a lot of > switches. ok, thanks will look at that too. :) songbird

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread davidson
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 15:26, songbird wrote: songbird wrote: ... i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this but no luck yet in my searches. Surely you don't need to set a temperature limit? If you do, the cpu will still run (far

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Emanuel Berg
songbird wrote: > i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly > become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like > uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got > me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to > a range well below the maximum that kicks

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 15:26, songbird wrote: > songbird wrote: > ... >> i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this >> but no luck yet in my searches. Surely you don't need to set a temperature limit? If you do, the cpu will still run (far too much, but less than now) up to

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread tv.debian
Le 08/04/2023 à 16:26, songbird wrote : songbird wrote: ... i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this but no luck yet in my searches. ... of course the moment i send the message it comes to me that perhaps the BIOS will let me do this, but i don't want to reboot at

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... > i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this > but no luck yet in my searches. ... of course the moment i send the message it comes to me that perhaps the BIOS will let me do this, but i don't want to reboot at the moment to check that. will check

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread tom
On 2023-04-08 22:17, songbird wrote: i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to a range well below the

how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread songbird
i have a program that has changed it's behavior to suddenly become a CPU hog (while doing something simple like uploading files for my website). probably a bug, but it got me to wondering how i could limit the CPU temperature to a range well below the maximum that kicks in by the CPU itself.