[tech] Switchesu

Ian McKellar yakk at yakk.net.au
Thu Sep 14 23:16:50 WST 2000


On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:06:08PM +1100, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> "Anil Sharma <Grand Poobah Maset>" <maset at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > so change the polarity of the power going into the fans so that they
> > suck... or put them on the other sid.
> 
>   Better yet, reverse the polarity on the CPUs so they get cold
> instead of hot.

What you do for SMP is run CPU0 and CPU1 back to back with the polarity of
CPU1 reversed. They way there is no net temperature change. You have to be
careful that you keep your CPU load balanced.

Ian




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