From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 2 16:39:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9647733E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emorrasg@yahoo.es) Received: from nm12.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm12.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5562F04 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.105.224] by nm12.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Apr 2013 16:39:56 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.224] by tm20.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Apr 2013 16:39:56 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp104.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Apr 2013 16:39:56 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s1024; t=1364920796; bh=Z0xpLUdX0vAjcZu6tiSwPHhGGsRNr5Vv6q4XiljTJDA=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BIalKM3A+HL71lJRVGCJCs7i11htvFe0hxwxRtUQM7dAGybJwF0oguDkb8NQ4KZvK53H+nxsTAh0c3Xgkh4lF26i0ovkvm0DudU4i85eRTFc2SuS9qPnpLaEYvGauZ7VIPvsIYT7Z45kOJFEyS/xpu1RG9JIH8jl0gfByKSg+bg= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 316907.43271.bm@smtp104.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: Hjic1JcVM1nKRZsfPiqaGyGKR4OsIiTrvW04agk5ScRooHl 3nIt53Mzt953P88aBeUg3YAWyjL9vqNT1RG0HCrrrmHGJ0HdY49tRiyANSfk nSLBjLGSFO8hxEVF3A2XBHJFtucLarl3CH__f5CD2e8earl5Ci0vAj7.uEB_ GwblUDOLzcGNH2F36fQWvVU29bya9v.gjJZv0fFBrRK_5XVZm6_mR0kUq3IU D7lByJIm_xN7e_lgsgNOzNE7n5bvY3ZLs42MS2hKweg178HH_vJo1K.Q9yne haQe6PKzeAVbsjVnu4UDWC88OEEkOL8vWRbqpNzYzct1neIVVMSAJ.qIlWuY UgmX5FK_C4_tO0IXqibwajzvq.E0r6sRK5zlio21pqZJIpSBo5alFczVsK5f 0D5hN_g7uh3QxSzFmBQMZdU5tOWApINb0zZzvaDZ5rL1wd7.LlI_XGiKnkiA kwjrQIV8UFA-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: mX392iiswBAeJNdO_s.EW62LZDJR X-Rocket-Received: from camibar.emorras.eu (emorrasg@89.7.216.154 with plain) by smtp104.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 02 Apr 2013 09:39:56 -0700 PDT Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:39:54 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:39:58 -0000 On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:02:02 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" 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. > > > 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. > 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