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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:16:01 +0200
From: Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>
To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
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Subject: Re: Management of Thermal
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Quoting Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:27:56 +1000
> Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote:

> Powerd is enabled.
>
> I am currently doing not much at all (listening to music stream,  =20
> load of  0.24, 0.45, 0.69) and tz0  =3D 78C. it drops down a lot more  =20
> when running on batteries only
>

Hi Norberto,

your temperature values are a little bit too high. On my Notebook
(model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz) the CPU is =20
at between 50=B0C - 60=B0C when I use normal desktop applications and up =20
to 80=B0C when I compile something.
You could open your case and look if there's dust in the airflow so =20
the fans cannot blow out all the hot air.
I only use the powerd with "-a adaptive -b adaptive" flags. There =20
should be no need for the cpufreq module.

Lars