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From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to 9.0 and Fan kick to high speed
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:44:17PM -0500, benjamin adams wrote:
> I just upgraded from RC3 to release and now my pc fans are doing an high
> to low every two seconds.  Ideas on why??

Lots of ideas on why, but whether or not any of them are applicable is a
separate topic.  :-)  For starters:

sysctl -a | grep freq
sysctl -a | grep acpi

And are you using powerd(8) at all?

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