[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia MSeriesmotherboard

[Technical Support]

You can dramatically reduce the heat from your EPIA board by turning on CPU
scaling!  Once we turned it on, the heatsink was cool to the touch.  (Even
with asterisk running).

MD


-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Comber [mailto:angus at iteloffice.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:16 AM
To: shmaltz at gmail.com; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia
MSeriesmotherboard

But the systems are sold in this configuration.  There is a fan option.  I
chose the fanless option.

Angus

----- Original Message -----
From: "C F" <shmaltz at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia M
Seriesmotherboard


As you suspected, the problem is the fact that you don't have a fan.
Since a machine that runs just a file server does not require much CPU
power, the CPU doesn't get too hot. However Asterisk does use lots of CPU,
therefore the CPU is hot, and yes the problem of stopping to work is because
of the CPU being overheated, you are lucky that the computer booted after
that, in most cases the overheating of a CPU means that the CPU expanded too
much, when you shut it down it cools off, and shrinks, which could result in
cracking the CPU. You should never run a CPU without it's fan if it's meant
to run with a fan. Even if running it just as a file server. The fact that
you are lucky doesn't mean that you don't need a fan.

On 9/5/05, Angus Comber <angus at iteloffice.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am running Asterisk on SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 on a VIA Epia M 
> Series motherboard - CPU runs at 1GHz.  There is no fan - just a large 
> heatsink.
> Currently system is running off standard IDE hard drive - because I 
> couldn't get astlinux to run with my Digium TDM04B card (only PCI card 
> in system).
>
> Strangely I also have the same system also running SUSE Linux running 
> as a file server and that does not run so hot and does not overheat?  
> Why the difference?
>
> Just booting up both systems for 15 minutes you can tell the Asterisk 
> box is quite a bit hotter.  Also the Asterisk box overheated (well 
> think that was the problem) and stopped operating as PBX at one stage.
>
> Anyone any experience of this sort of thing?  any ideas how to fix - 
> ideally I don't want to have to fit a fan.
>
> Is SUSE not the best distro to use for this sort of thing?  Should it 
> be something to take up with VIA?
>
> Angus
>
>
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