Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:39:54 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recipie for CPU souffle' Message-ID: <20130402183954.e926a662937d0e767381eaa4@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <8363.1364871722@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <8363.1364871722@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:02:02 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > I really wish that one or the other of those tools allowed setting a > threshold CPU temp, beyond which the tool would emit an ear piercing > alarm via the motherboard speaker... you know.. in case the regular > external stereo speakers are turned off. > > <question> > What *is* the best way to achieve the above effect, i.e. to arrange > for the machine to scream for help in case it is getting too hot? > > I don't want it to just die, like it is doing now. I want it to scream > so that I can rush over and at least try to do an orderly shutdown. > </question> Among other startup scritps in my laptop, I use this for setup the temperature threshold: root@camibar:/root # cat .setcooling.sh #!/bin/sh sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1 sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV=65C sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=0 Default value is 101C, which I think is excessive optimistic value. --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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