Homelab Hero · No. 016: your result

Hero call. 100 Hero Points.

Exactly right. Throttling is the symptom, not the disease — something in the airflow path has failed, and every minute the batch runs it bakes the rest of the rack. Pausing costs a batch slot; finding and fixing the failed fan or clogged filter before restarting means the job, and the backup queued behind it, run on hardware that can breathe.

The lesson: Heat is a hardware fault announcing itself. Pause the load, fix the airflow, then restart.

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