Re: amd64 system powering down

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:10:50PM +0200, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:37:41AM +0200, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> > > Hm, I think I've tracked my problem down to the following: Doesn't matter
> > > what kernel I use, just switching from X11 to console via F1 brings the
> > > notebook down in a minute or so. One of the temperature sensors goes from
> > > ca. 70 degC to over 110 degC and eventually the beast is shut down by the
> > > BIOS... Switching back to X11 (while it's still running ;-) doesn't change
> > > anything.
> > > Graphic chip is (from scanpci):
> > >  pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x3154
> > >  ATI Technologies Inc M24 1T [FireGL M24 GL]
> > >
> > > Perhaps I should try X11 from pkgsrc instead of the native one?
> > 
> > does top show anything working harder?
> Doesn't look like:
> 
> load averages:  0.07,  0.02,  0.01                                      up 0 
> days,  2:01   12:02:29
> 47 processes:  45 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 on CPU
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
> Memory: 116M Act, 6824K Wired, 16M Exec, 28M File, 1858M Free
> Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   316 root      95    0  1780K   22M select     0:01  0.00%  0.00% XFree86
>  3192 ks        63    0   752K 1240K CPU        0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
>     0 root      96    0     0K   16M actwat     0:00  0.00%  0.00% [system]
>   146 named     95    0  2784K   12M select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% named
>   337 root      95    0  6564K 8272K select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% squid
>   346 squid     95    0  2784K 7508K netio      0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
>   502 root      95    0  3808K 6224K select     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
>   278 ntpd      95    0  1780K 5664K pause      0:00  0.00%  0.00% ntpd
>  2849 root      95    0   764K 3428K netio      0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd
>   643 root      95    0   764K 3396K netio      0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd
>   645 www       95    0  3808K 2728K kqueue     0:00  0.00%  0.00% httpd
> 
> Sysstat shows:
> 
>     2 users    Load  0.00  0.00  0.00                  Mon Jul  7 12:05:31
> 
> Proc:r  d  s  w     Csw    Trp    Sys   Int   Sof    Flt      PAGING   
> SWAPPING
>           15         26            68     4    29             in  out   in  
> out
>                                                         ops
>    0.0% Sy   0.0% Us   0.0% Ni   0.0% In 100.0% Id    pages
> |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
>                                                                           
> forks
>                                                                           
> fkppw
>            memory totals (in kB)               4 Interrupts               
> fksvm
>           real  virtual     free                 ioapic0 pin 9            
> pwait
> Active  119636   119636  1902424                 ioapic0 pin 1            
> relck
> All     152264   152264 10291028                 ioapic0 pin 12           
> rlkok
>                                                4 ioapic0 pin 16           
> noram
> Namei         Sys-cache     Proc-cache           ioapic0 pin 14           
> ndcpy
>     Calls     hits    %     hits     %                                    
> fltcp
>         6        6  100                                                   zfod
>                                                                           cow
> Disks:   wd0                                                           64 fmin
>  seeks                                                                 85 
> ftarg
>  xfers                                                                    
> itarg
>  bytes                                                               1706 
> wired
>  %busy                                                                    
> pdfre
>                                                                           
> pdscn
> 
> Only temperature is going up:
> 
> >-835: envstat | grep degC
>       temperature:     44.000                                degC
>            TEMP_1:     47.000                                degC
>            TEMP_2:     47.000                                degC
>              TMP0:     44.000                                degC
>              TMP1:     47.000                                degC
>              TMP2:     36.000                                degC
>              TMP3:    107.000                                degC
> 
> It's quite "fesh" here today w/ open windows so no forced powerdown until 
> now...
> 
> But I can see a similar effect (temperature going high, but not above ca. 98 
> degC)
> when XFree86 has something to do - for example heavy scrolling while a 
> build.sh
> is running... 

Sounds like TMP3 measures the temperature in the vicinity of the graphics
chip.  Which XFree86 driver do you use?  It almost sounds as if the
video adapter is not "idling" properly, but it is furiously trying to
draw something, instead.  The notion may not even apply to your adapter
and/or driver.

Dave

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