Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de> writes:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:56:11 +0000, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >> I'm growing concerned about overheating.....
> >
> > They always run warm!  Typical solutions include:

I should preface my remarks with ("having owned and used the 3GX for a
couple years under solaris")

I used a 'water brick' when I was expirementing with soalris 9 on the
machine (works well, aside from power management, graphics, pcmcia)

Under 2.6 I've used it out in the world for hours on end without
worrying about heat. it keeps your lap warm, sure. but not the 'nearly
too hot to touch' level.

> ...
> Yes, but he has a point - Solaris does quite a good job at keeping the
> unit's temperature at an acceptable level, 

That's mostly due to the tadpole packages, I believe- which are in 2.6 5/98 and
apparently still in solaris7 if you want to pay $300 to tadpole.

I gather openbsd has something that works, and I've seen reference to
some APM work on netbsd in the archives.  don't know the religious state
of using openbsd code or anything, though.

I don't *mind* solaris, but I think 2.6 shows its age a little, and I like
the speed of the netbsd system so far. I also like having more systems
behave the same and netbsd is an obvious choice in my 8 (cpu) architecture house.

I'm also hoping eventually that something will turn up for me to get a
wavelan card working.....


> mine rarely gets more than
> hand warm ( it runs Solaris because NetBSD doesn't support the
> SUNW,DBRIe's ISDN part - I use the box as NAT-router, http-proxy,
> firewall and so on ), of course it gets (a bit) warmer on heavy load.

sound woul dbe nice, but isn't terribly important, ISDN isn't something
I have to worry about right now- but might after I move.

> The only things I did to keep it cool is using the little legs to
> allow airflow underground and leaving the PCMCIA door open - not
> putting it on a soft ( and therefore isolating ) surface should be
> enough.


I just use the legs, under solaris. works great :)


thanks!
Christof

> 
> have fun
> Michael