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I think I have found the culprit and the reason why it went up to 60. As everyone said, the 60 degrees temp is normal and I can see that since thats my temp for the past days and its working fine. However, I forgot to mention that there is a fan for exhaust below in the mini pc and apologies on that. With the fan working fine before it is under 40 degrees as I have shown on my post and it seems sometime days ago it hardly spin and even if it does, it does not spin enough. Right now I was able to make it spin by poking inside to turn it and now I'm getting around 40 degrees again.

There is already a new fan otw and hopefully it works. Thanks!

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sysctl dev.cpu | grep temperature ; sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_usage
dev.cpu.3.temperature: 40.0C
dev.cpu.2.temperature: 40.0C
dev.cpu.1.temperature: 40.0C
dev.cpu.0.temperature: 40.0C
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% last 153us


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last pid: 65081;  load averages:  0.32,  0.35,  0 up 1+11:05:00  18:09:59
91 processes:  1 running, 90 sleeping
CPU:  2.4% user,  0.0% nice,  1.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 96.1% idle
Mem: 519M Active, 5342M Inact, 1349M Wired, 754M Buf, 528M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU CO
85341 root          3  20    0  1356M  1243M nanslp   1  47:55   0.88% py
84085 root          3  20    0  1356M  1243M nanslp   3  47:52   0.78% py
84667 root          3  20    0  1356M  1243M nanslp   2  47:48   0.78% py
10175 root          1  20    0    94M    68M accept   3   0:03   0.68% ph
67618 root          1  20    0    94M    68M accept   1   0:01   0.49% ph
45334 root          1  20    0   231M   113M nanslp   1  19:22   0.39% ph
86604 root          1  20    0    96M    69M accept   1   0:02   0.10% ph


55C, on a 4 core, with a load avg ~0.1 ? Sounds a bit high for a near 100% idle system. 37-40C is what I would expect.
What CPU is it? What device is it?

It is a N150 Mini PC. I've already accepted the fact that its normal, I cannot find any reason why its running high. I'm in a tropical country btw, so I dont think its because of the change of weather especially I have AC on almost 24/7. But hey, that might be really the case.

Having said that, I am thinking of replacing the fan inside and hopefully that changes everything.

Summer is coming, so this is normal. My device averages 30-35C in winter, and 55-66 in summer. Its a passively cooled machine stuck in the small closed rack with zero ventilation. Just relax.

I have considered this as well though even at night where I have my AC on and it still climb to 60. Another thing that is weird is that after changing the thermal paste it stays below 40 for the entire night then stays at 60 never goes down to 55.But yeah, I'll keep this in mind, its just weird temp for me so far cause I didnt noticed this before.

Hello,

I just want to ask for guidance and looking on what I missed in my setup.

I have been using OPNsense for awhile and my normal average temperature is around 40 degrees Celsius but now suddenly my average temp for the the past few days is at 51 - 65. It is still ok but I dont know why the sudden change. I have already changed the thermal paste and check the fan. I also checked via ssh the temp some times there is 10-5 degrees discrepancy. My settings are all the same(even tunables) so I am wondering what could be the cause. To add, sometimes the web gui sometimes not loading.

OPNsense version: OPNsense 26.1
CPU Usage is less than 5%

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sysctl dev.cpu | grep temperature ; sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_usage
dev.cpu.3.temperature: 55.0C
dev.cpu.2.temperature: 55.0C
dev.cpu.1.temperature: 55.0C
dev.cpu.0.temperature: 55.0C
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% last 190us

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last pid: 81027;  load averages:  0.06,  0.10,  0.13                                                                                                       up 0+03:53:00  12:18:47
84 processes:  1 running, 83 sleeping
CPU:  0.2% user,  0.0% nice,  0.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.3% idle
Mem: 150M Active, 1304M Inact, 734M Wired, 371M Buf, 5626M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
50736 root          1  20    0   229M   117M nanslp   3   2:10   0.99% php
81027 root          1  20    0    15M  3540K CPU2     2   0:00   0.14% top
71531 root          1  20    0    28M    14M select   0   0:03   0.02% python3.13
95720 hostd         7  20    0    56M    15M uwait    3   0:06   0.02% hostwatch
33067 user          1  20    0    20M  8732K select   1   0:00   0.02% sshd-sessio

extracted temp(got the top and bottom)

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I do not have IDS/IPS enabled and no zenarmor. I only have quite few that I installed like nextDNS, cloudflared, and pulse(which is not active anymore but still installed). I already have this even before and I didnt got any spike or stable 60 degrees on my cpu temp.
Thanks!

PS.  I noticed that I got the high temp after my last update on OPNsense. Coincidence? I do not know just giving an fyi.