[cfarm-users] overheating and dead HBA

[Gregor Riepl]

> As long as the current situation and the warm weather persist, you could turn them on at most for a period (at night in your local time?) both for your own personal coolness and not to burn extra energy in air conditioning. I can't see anything being so urgent as to require 24-hour access and if people who do need them know when they'll be on and off they can plan better.

Another idea: Don't run them all at the same time, set up a schedule instead.

That would require some sort of automatic power-up machinery of course, which may not be easy to do with exotic hardware. However... cfarm420..430 seem to be VMs on two big boxes? Would it help heat emission to just shut down part of the VMs on a schedule?

In any case: Thanks for your efforts. Hopefully it really was just the HBA that melted down.