From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 09:53:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6A716A418 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:53:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D08913C43E for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:53:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 30586 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2007 04:53:53 -0500 Received: from 124-170-228-57.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.170.228.57) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Oct 2007 04:53:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:53:49 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Lars Engels 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Mobile ML Subject: Re: Management of Thermal X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:53:54 -0000 On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:16:01 +0200 Lars Engels 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 Features2=3D0x180 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.