From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 19:44:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE2328B for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:44:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@kryptos-security.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49FA8FC12 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id fw7so5777845vcb.13 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:44:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=1ZvUf/Z3KmxJcAHtdodQCH4EMkiPM1Z9C2zp57T/oFU=; b=B+WgS77iYEXk8i98RS45dhuSKy/hXNZ/dg3TW/h1TkuV0us4Al0UvuapyPVYK5xPhv aVlqDu7FCiAiVXUF/2VoptvMj8/zIBJtNiOIlrpD6iMNJ7HUmIRAbLT8ckbRdq63CZBO obhzHby+C/L347jMpbqFj05wPn1l3ZMtbxo2uqMAr0VLbE9I3GYgTkLgK329VDURrS84 +CgP9rl9h9WwVS6Gdg6n6ksmbVyVh3DfoIjIo2K4izKp2dt8ZwmT7wjo6KfgjK+X3t6P YmcXOW0SfR/mkt7hRjQyHIVDz4WPXygbWDxT7x5/6497z6xmebjpvKthRP781vrs0drM R/sg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.8.73 with SMTP id g9mr27617121vcg.28.1351453485558; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.252.199 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:44:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [98.231.6.79] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:44:45 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Quick question about dev.smu dev.smusat on powermac11,2 From: Michael Copeland To: Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkfHifDHe3IWM2iY7aWKwYwnjNSHh17Nnw5Sb0wiu4USVPn+Q5Hja3WIk5S2NKRfwOo5Urb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:44:47 -0000 On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > It should work fine (it does on my desktop, which is a G5 of the same > model). Since I wrote that program, fan control has moved to the kernel. > The fans should be fairly quickly responsive (the algorithm is quite basic) > but should never go to full or cause a panic. Which release are you > running? There were some improvements to fan control in 9.1. > -Nathan > > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Michael Copeland wrote: > > Is the fan control disabled by default on a GP dual core? Only reason I >> ask >> is that the fans on spool up under full load, and that usually results in >> a >> panic. >> I did make a rather simple program and associated script to control the >> fans, but this happens to result in the fans constantly going up and down >> by about 300-400 rpm even while doing something simple like portsnap >> extract. I checked the list after doing that, and found a thread where >> someone else already did the same thing(a common problem of mine, I >> usually >> try to fix it myself without checking the list). I swapped out the program >> written by Nathan, but my results are the same. It DOES work, but I was >> only wondering if it's normal for the fan speed to vary so often. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael >> ______________________________**_________________ >> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@**freebsd.org >> " >> >> Hi Nathan, It's 9.1-PRE, from.. 3 days ago. The fans, without my app running either spin at the lowest rpm, or the fastest. Once it's at max rpm, in 5 minutes it will panic.