[SOLVED] cpu throttling

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-21 03:56:03

CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 742416)
CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 742416)

It's on an old P4 3.2 GHz. I don't care if the machine blows up, to be honest with you. And this over and over again quickly makes my everything.log and messages.log very huge. Gigabytes. Any way to suppress this error/warning/message? Also, any way to turn off the clock throttling?

Thanks.

Arch is the shit, btw.

Last edited by umpalumpa1985 (2009-10-24 23:42:26)

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-22 02:50:12

Well, since yesterday, my log files have grown to ~ 2.5 Gb. ridiculous. I've been running logrotate manually to take care of it, but now i've decided to just add it cron.hourly. still would like a workaround, if possible, though.

MrGone · 2009-10-22 10:42:45

Hey, okay i had this issue too but it was nothing to do with the cpu i don't think. I had it for ages but nothing happened until my machine went crazy and started locking up and a bunch of other issues. I took my computer apart cleaned the fan intake for the cpu and noticed that my graphics card was baking.

I never turned on the power scaling options for my nvidia graphics card after using the official drivers it was baking everything in my case for ages. Turned them on and I haven't had any messages since and everything works waaaaay better because i turned on some other optimisation stuff for the card as well. If you have a big graphics card, check the options make sure power scaling for heat is on should be fine.

iphitus · 2009-10-22 11:37:13

umpalumpa1985: Clean out your fan/case?

Otherwise configure CPUFreq and scale the frequency right down. The fan bearings in my server (old laptop) are worn, so I've clocked it down to 600mhz (from 1.4GHz). It never even spools up now.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-23 22:27:07

well, i already had cleaned out the fan and case pretty well, and even installed a new fan. the thing is, i see that the alarm temp on the p4 3.2 GHz is set at 75 degrees, and when this is happening, it's never even above 65. something weird is going on. in any case, what i really want to know is if i can suppress those log messages, as they quickly grow to several gigabytes. thanks for the advice, nonetheless.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-24 23:24:19

well, after some consideration about the posts mentioning cleaning, i gutted my whole case and cleaned everything twice with two cans of canned air, my cpu temp dropped by ~15 degrees. thanks for the tip!

EDIT: how to mark as solved?

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mikesd · 2009-10-24 23:29:21

EDIT: how to mark as solved?

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umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-24 23:42:00

thank you , sir

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#1 2009-10-21 03:56:03

[SOLVED] cpu throttling

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Re: [SOLVED] cpu throttling

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