I am curious about the RPI3 in a normal top/bottom case, and the
necessity/wisdom of heatsinks, and I don't see anything in the netbsd
wiki page.
Reading a bunch, it seems that putting a CPU heatsink on reduces the
temperature for a given workload, but does not entirely obviate the need
for throttling the CPU.
I wonder if NetBSD -8 and -current will actually drop CPU speed back
automatically due to high temperatures?
Have people seen this happen?
Is it sufficient to protect the system?
Is it sane to run MAKE_JOBS=8 on a RPI3? With or without a heatsink (in
a case)?
Some data from idle systems (both 8.0_RC2, indoors):
RPI1 without heatsink:
Current CritMax WarnMax WarnMin CritMin Unit
[vcmbox0]
temperature: 43.312 85.000 degC
RPI3 with heatsink:
Current CritMax WarnMax WarnMin CritMin Unit
[vcmbox0]
temperature: 51.540 85.000 degC
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