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On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop |
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> with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would |
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> default to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash |
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> script that manually put the CPU into "userspace" mode, and selected |
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> the maximum available CPU speed. I finally got Youtube with steady |
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> playback at 1080p... YAY! I'd leave it at max speed during my waking |
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> hours, and drop it to min speed at night before going to bed. |
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> I saw the occasional mysterious lockups as I mentioned in recent |
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> threads. I wonder if pushing the CPU to max speed most of the day |
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> would cause overheating and lockups. I'm leaving my current, more |
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> powerfull, machine in "conservative" mode. |
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The CPU will automatically throttle when a certain temperature is |
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reached. This may be the cause of the lockups. |
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> Should I stay in conservative mode? Or forget about speed control |
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> entirely, and let "Intel Speed Step" handle things for me? Also, is |
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> there a way to enable CPU throttling based on temperature? |
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Have you tried ondemand mode? It ramps up the speed faster than |
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conservative mode and drops equally fast if there is not much to do. I |
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have it enabled everywhere and didn't notice any problems. |
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Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tastytea@××××××××.de` or at |
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<https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>. |
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