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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> What are the Dell system specs? |
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> ( Heatsink on a CPU? .... How old is this system ? ) |
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Dell Precision T7600, two 16 thread Xeons, 192GB of RAM, two Quadro |
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cards and a Tesla card. |
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The system is a few years old at this point. Old enough that the |
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thermal compound could have hardened, which is why I replaced it. |
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> On 04/19/2018 08:22 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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>> I was compiling Gentoo, as is custom, but found my old new server to |
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>> be thermal cycling wildly. The fans will turn on full blast and |
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>> machine check errors will be generated if I use approximately more |
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>> than one third to half of the cores. The cores then throttle |
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>> themselves, only to immediately overheat once the throttle lifts. This |
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>> seems to persist on Windows, though Windows seems to be much more |
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>> conservative in its CPU usage, and triggers MCEs less. |
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>> Any suggestions? I repasted the CPU and heatsink interface, and the |
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>> machine is not loaded with dust. It was hardly ever used. The MCEs |
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>> seem to be a "normal" part of operation, though less normal on |
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>> Windows. |
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>> Is there a way to at least mimic the conservative CPU usage that |
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>> Windows exhibits? |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> R0b0t1 |
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