Duty-cycle on mini's (was Re: Compiler patches ...)

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

>> Are they really designed to run at full bore at the time?
>
>  You'd hope so, and that the fans blowing full speed would allow  
> this to be the case. I've not had this happen on mine, so perhaps  
> it's a ventilation issue ?

I can't speak to "designed" for flat-out operation, but my mini runs  
24x7 without complaint.

During the day the CPU is often pinned for hours on end doing massive  
compiles. Or running simple Java apps :-P

The only side effect I've noticed from heavy CPU load is the cat  
wanting to curl up on top of it. (Which also doesn't seem to bother  
the machine :-)

--lyndon