Tim wrote:
Actually, I'd go along with the last argument (improve the cooling). If your box is overheating, whether it's due to strange conditions or not, the fact that it *can* overheat is the important issue.
Therefore there's a chance that it can overheat during normal operating conditions, if one of your normal operating conditions makes strong use of the CPU. So you DO want to improve your cooling.
All that is presuming that it really is overheating, and not just that the over-temperature alarm, itself, is at fault.
I give up. Linux is a religion. Linus is the Pope. No one can question it. Heretics are vilified and run out of town on a rail.
Here we have a chance to take 5 minutes to run top, and see what the CPU utilization is. It would literally take five minutes.
I am 99.44% sure that nothing would turn up. But what would it cost?
It costs actually considering the possibility that Linux might have one line of code which is not perfect.
That's a priori impossible. Because the Pope is never wrong, and the Holy Religion cannot be questioned. I am anathema.
So, an opportunity possibly to improve Linux passes us by because we can't take the time to run top once.
I'm reminded of the famous line supposedly spoken by a german commander when the invasion in Normandy began, and he couldn't inform German High Command: "Wir werden den Krieg verloren, weil der Fuehrer einige Schlaftabletten genommen hat, und nicht zu stoeren ist."
It's futile to suggest actually to collect any data on Linux behavior if there is any threat it might reveal a wart on its nose, because the suggestion will be rejected out of hand.
Mike