HPC had its first thermal shutdown today as stated by the BIOS after pressing the physical on button on the computer. In the past, Synthbot (and maybe also someone else) said that IPFS uses too much CPU. I was curious as to what exactly was meant by that. It means that it heats up the CPU and activates a higher fan speed (if your computer does that); if you use crappy tech, this can lead to the CPU overheating and something failing or the computer turning off to prevent damage. Look at htop or whatever and see something like this: "90% of all 4 cores are being used". Observations on two "old" computers, both with the ipfs daemon running and connected to the Internet: . 32-bit laptop computer which was apparently high-end for its time: pinning something with lots of nodes (QmVc...eRc6) = Thermal Shutdown; computer was able to start up again. .. Before shutting down, there was probably kernel messages which looked similar to this: "CPU3: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 9041)" - total events in the thousands or tens of thousands. .. Possible solution: pin something with lots of nodes via a CAR file = less intensive maybe. Or, throttle the CPU(s) more. . 64-bit Windows 7 laptop computer: don't remember if it was doing anything extra, but it had an unexpected shutdown (maybe a thermal one); computer was unable to start up again = "burned". This happened months ago. .. Not as sure how much ipfs is to blame in this case for this hardware fault due to overheating or whatever
