[vox-tech] overheating

Bill Broadley bill at cse.ucdavis.edu
Wed Jun 17 10:26:50 PDT 2009


Gandalf Parker wrote:
> Since kernel upgrade (debian etch) Ive gotten occassional messages to console about overheating CPU.
> 
> Getting hardware fixes is out of the question for the moment. Any
> suggestions on pinning down which programs are causing it?

Seems kinda strange to blame a program for overheating.  Certainly anything
that causes more CPU usage causes more heat.  Even a pegged CPU shouldn't
overhead a system though.  The flip side is that if something is wrong even an
idle system could overheat.


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