cpu overheating

[Mike McCarty]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Roo wrote:
> 
>>Saying that software which fully utilises the CPU has a DEFECT
>>is witless drivelling of the worst kind.
> 
> 
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>It is not, because Linux is not intended to utilize the CPU like that.
> 
> That is an extraordinary claim. Absolutely extraordinary.

It seems perfectly natural to me.

> Are you *seriously* suggesting that Linux computers are not meant to run
> processor-intensive code?

Read what I wrote very carefully.

I said that *LINUX* is not intended to utilize the CPU like
that. I said nothing about applications which might be written
for Linux. I said that the OS itself is not supposed to be
CPU intensive.

That seems perfectly natural and unremarkable to me.

>>My machine normally runs 4% to 8% utilization, most of that being
>>in X.
> 
> That is completely irrelevant.

No, it is not, because it shows that Linux itself is not
CPU intensive. I stated above that Linux was not intended
to be CPU intensive, and I provided evidence that it actually
is not CPU intensive.

[snip]

> Are you seriously suggesting that people should not do 3D games, media
> encoding, scientific applications or compiling on Linux?

I seriously said what I said, but not what you read into it.

Mike
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