Solved CPU1 running at 98% Constantly.....CPU2 running at 15% varying with load

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maybe a dark light in the background....infared ?
 


maybe a dark light in the background....infared ?
Maybe... I just use an extension like 'Dark Reader'. It's highly recommended - if you want to surf a darker web.
 
I think I had my mind on the stories I had read relating to people 'bricking" their motherboards.

If i had 'succeeded' in blowing LM21.1 to blazes, that would have been one thing.....but destroying the motherboard would have been catastrophic (give my rather parlous financial state)

maybe the 'stories' are just people preaching bs to stir the various communities up.....but I have no way of knowing that with any certainty.
 
Is there any reason I should avoid this model etc ??

Not as far as I know.

But, I haven't assembled my own computer in a lot of years. I don't even upgrade my computers, as a general rule.
 
It all came to nothing anyway....I missed the auction by $1 ....yes, seriously one bloody dollar.

I guess it just wasn't meant to happen. Not today anyway.
 
Is there any reason I should avoid this model etc ??

Not that I know of. I am running the same CPU on one of my systems.

It is interesting, out of 18 different computers I logged into this week, not a single one is
running a process called kacpid.

I do have a few running something called acpid. ( a systemd process ) But normally we disable it
on most of our systems. I don't even remember why really.

I am trying to login to a couple of debian systems to see if they are running this.

 
have the same issue, I needed to disable gpe16 and gpe17 for kworker to stop hogging the CPU. I followed the recipe found here: http://sudoremember.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/high-cpu-usage-due-to-kworker.html

An abbreviated (and corrected, at least for my instance) version is here:

$ sudo -s
# echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe16
# echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe17

You should now see the CPU load / hear the fans go down. Make sure this happens again on reboot - still while root privs:

# crontab -e

This opens your favourite editor. Add these lines:

@reboot echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe16
@reboot echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe17

Since suspend mode doesn't work for me I didn't bother following the remainder of the instructions on how to create a script that reactivates those settings on resume after suspend.

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That is a brilliant conversation from Linus Torvalds !!.....and on 07 Oct 2006 !!!...
The thing is, Intel did really well for _years_ with just defining
hardware interfaces. The PIIX IDE controller interfaces were a great
success, and worked for over a decade. So here's a question for you:

"After having done something successfully for a decade, what do you do?
Do you
(a) Try to emulate a known successful strategy?
(b) Put a committee together to try to come up with a new and more
'generic' solution, since you were only successful for closer to
fifteen years."

Guess which one is ACPI.

Linus


No wonder Linus is held in the high esteem that he is.
and yet....here we are......still being screwed around by acpi

Go Figure.
 
I am also investing in a brick....to hold the tower down on the desk !
Now you can say if you screw up your installation that you actually bricked your system.
 
This thread reminds me of Jethro Tull's song - Thick As A Brick...

 
yup...it's almost that long !
 
This thread reminds me of Jethro Tull's song - Thick As A Brick...

(Link to very truncated version of the music - .)
In my opinion, that YouTube link is a truncated travesty. Thick as a Brick is not merely a "song." The actual piece filled both sides of a vinyl record album with over 40 minutes of brilliant music, without pause. That truncated version was for radio airplay or maybe 45 RPM singles. By the way, the album cover opened into a newspaper with many pages. The album and its packaging are both classics.

A similar thing happened with Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. The short piece people know (from The Exorcist) is a truncated version of a full album of music in two parts without pause.

I am listening to the full "Thick as a Brick" as I write this ... and will put on Tubular Bells next ...
I have a bad habit of hijacking threads, but it is hard to resist.
 
Thick as a Brick is not merely a "song." The actual piece filled both sides of a vinyl record album with over 40 minutes of brilliant music,

While the album is awesome, I dunno how many folks are going to dedicate the time to listen. So, truncated version it is. I almost linked a live version. Ian Anderson is pretty awesome.
 
ahem. A bit off topic... :D



@Lord Boltar .....thank you for your suggestion/recommendation to find an Intel i7-6700 cpu

Given the time I had to save the necessary dollars to achieve this, I found I could upgrade the cpu to a 7th generation....namely an i7-7700......the pic below tells the story.
I am about to invest in an i7-7700 cpu and another 2 x 8gb's of ram
I did exactly that.
It was fitted yesterday, with help from a charming young guy from Armidale. (a city near to here)...he came to me and we drank coffee/tea and talked a bit of bs, but mainly concentrated on making my ailing pc young/ish again

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new system specs

System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.7
tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B150M Pro4 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P7.30 date: 04/11/2017
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-7700
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache:
L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 57600

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: DP-2,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: primary,right model: Samsung S24D300 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92
diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-2: HDMI-2 mapped: HDMI-A-2 pos: primary,left model: Acer G246HL res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92
diag: 609mm (24")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
Device-2: Logitech Z Cinéma type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-8:4
chip-ID: 046d:0a0f
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.43 TiB used: 554.51 GiB (22.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 32.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 750 EVO 120GB size: 111.79 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3300822AS size: 279.46 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Elements 2621 size: 1.82 TiB
serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 227.68 GiB used: 29.49 GiB (13.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 12.9 MiB (2.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C pch: 37.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2388 apt: 2375 flatpak: 13
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 256 Uptime: 8m Memory: 31.03 GiB used: 1.54 GiB (5.0%) Init: systemd v: 249
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.6.7 inxi: 3.3.13

I am more than happy with the result. More speed?....without any doubt. Less noise?...Absolutely.

So, did we manage to achieve "making my ailing pc young/ish again"??

In spades.

Mission accomplished.
 
I'll buy you a beer, sometime
 

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