Re: Cyrix cooling (Re: RH5.2 won't install on Cyrix)

[Raphael Becker <beckerra@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Do AMD K6-XX CPUs have the same problem? I think the best way to avoid
> > problems like this is to buy generic Intel chips. You get what you pay
> > for, right?
[...] 
> If you look on Usenet you'll find people reporting "mpeg encoding mysteriously
> slows down on my new PIII after 15 minutes" - that appears to be PIII cooling
> problems they are having (the PIII seems to drop to 1/4 speed instead of
> just executing a shutdown cycle or dying randomly as the Cyrix does)

Wouldn´t this be a nice feature of Linux?
If a server-CPU gets "bored" for more than a time why not setting the
CPU to slower cycle via the APM? Is there a way to do this today?
This may increase the livetime of a CPU and maybe the CPU-powersupply
on the mainboard. 

> Alan

Raphael
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