From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9zda-0005ko-8m for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2017 15:57:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9zdW-0003y9-CX for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2017 15:57:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9zdW-0003y3-9N for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2017 15:57:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d9zdV-0001EJ-Vd for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2017 15:57:01 -0400 Subject: bug#26919: [PATCH] Add thermald and thermald-service-type (for cpu frequency scaling) Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <87y3u080qn.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87bmqvy4ca.fsf@gnu.org> <87wp9j8ml4.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20170514170034.GA17568@jasmine> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:55:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170514170034.GA17568@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 14 May 2017 13:00:34 -0400") Message-ID: <87lgpztdq0.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Leo Famulari Cc: 26919@debbugs.gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> Do you think it=E2=80=99s something we should add to =E2=80=98%base-serv= ices=E2=80=99, or is it >> too hardware-dependent? > > It does seem like an unusual requirement to me, since most systems > should do thermal management automatically in the CPU and BIOS. > > I can run my physical machines (GuixSD or Debian) at full CPU > utilization for extended periods of time without overheating. Yes, same here actually. Could it be due to this particular Libreboot + X200 combination? Or are we just lucky that other systems don=E2=80=99t overheat as well? Ludo=E2=80=99.