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  • Re: Crazy Idea?

    From Mortifis@VERT/EPHRAM to alterego on Sat Oct 10 19:43:53 2020
    Re: Re: Crazy Idea?
    By: Mortifis to alterego on Sat Oct 10 2020 02:33 pm

    Mine idles at 54'C with a tiny 5v, the cpu seems to throttle despite the specs saying it gets throttled at 80'C. I get great
    performance improvements when I use an old yet larger cpu fan.

    How do you know it throttles?

    I've not noticed any change in performance that would indicate that the CPU was being throttled.

    ...δεσ∩

    having the desktop temp/cpu widgets active and looking at xtop ... just visual observations ... certain 'apps' take cpu to 100% and the temp shoots up to 80'C+ ... like I say ... only if I don't have a big ass fan sucking the heat out ... perhaps I have a rotten pi 4 but this thing definitely needs a big fan

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  • From dragon@VERT/IPTIA to Tracker1 on Sun Oct 11 04:16:00 2020
    On 10/10/2020 6:21 PM, Tracker1 wrote:
    On 10/7/2020 12:47 PM, dragon wrote:
    I wonder what it would take to get package support via apt for
    Synchronet?
    Being able to do "apt-get update" for Synchronet and dependencies
    would go a
    long way towards what you're saying.

    I was also thinking that a baked-in screen editor/file manager would
    be useful.
    Perhaps integration with Midnight Commander?

    Which apt repo? Debian? Ubuntu? .. what about a PPK? How about an appImage, flatpak or snap?

    The issue isn't just the executable, there's a lot of bespoke
    configurations that go along with the executables.

    Raspian/Debian. We're talking Raspberry Pi.

    This would be a MOSTLY preconfigured system. I was asking about apt in
    the context of upgrades to Synchronet.

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Mortifis on Sun Oct 11 04:31:00 2020
    On 10/10/2020 9:43 PM, Mortifis wrote:

    having the desktop temp/cpu widgets active and looking at xtop ... just visual
    observations ... certain 'apps' take cpu to 100% and the temp shoots up to 80'C+ ... like I say ... only if I don't have a big ass fan sucking the heat out ... perhaps I have a rotten pi 4 but this thing definitely needs a big fan

    With the rPI 4, you should have at least a good heat sync... the Argon
    cases are good, but even the canakit setup will work okay. What you can
    do is underclock/undervolt slightly if you don't want to do that to keep thermals in better check, but this will bring it closer to RPI 3 speeds.

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