Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:53:49 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile ML <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Management of Thermal Message-ID: <20071008195349.035c3e33@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20071008111601.kfrb6qt8isw4owc0@0x20.net> References: <20071008172756.2aed69e7@meijome.net> <20071008173604.1e449ca2@meijome.net> <20071008111601.kfrb6qt8isw4owc0@0x20.net>
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:16:01 +0200 Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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. Hi Lars, right. when doing nothing, or hardly anything, it sits around 70 or so. dow= n to 40/50 if I'm on the train... so it does seem to work, just not when fu= lly powered. What I haven't configured at all is powerd (so it's using the defaults)...= I've been wondering how all the components that I listed before interact wi= th each other...for example, i don't want my CPU to be eating cycles (and p= ower) @ 2 GHz when I'm doing nothing. I'll try your suggestions (kill cpufreq,tweak powerd to see how it goes ).= =20 BTW, how does one use/enable/configure speedstep features? my CPU is=20 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (1995.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x6d8 Stepping =3D 8 Features=3D0xafe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PG= E,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE> Features2=3D0x180<EST,TM2> thx :) B _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest= political end...=20 liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincer= e opposition...=20 The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to to govern. Every clas= s is unfit to govern...=20 Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet= . Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have b= een Warned.
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