Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:36:04 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: FreeBSD Mobile ML <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Management of Thermal Message-ID: <20071008173604.1e449ca2@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20071008172756.2aed69e7@meijome.net>
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:27:56 +1000
Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> is there any documentation / resource on how to configure properly the
> different methods for management of power/thermal related components/services?
>
> eg,
> acpi (acpi_thermal), and all the knobs via sysctl
> powerd
> cpufreq
>
> I'm asking before i've been getting very high temperature (99 degrees, which
> matches my CRIT value ,on a Thinkpad z60m, Pentium M 2 GHz), when building
> ports / world.
>
> I am not sure whether / how to tell it to use EST properly.
>
> I can't feel the fans working really hard at all (maybe it's the way it's
> supposed
> to
> work? ) dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed does report over 3K RPM ...
>
> Annoyingly, it will drop down to 100 Mhz - I suppose it is
> cpufreq kicking in trying to control the temperature, but it's completely
> unusable. (yes, i've forced it to not less than 932 Mhz, but it still warms up
> too much).
>
> I played a bit with the knobs for *thermal*, but i am not entirely sure i'm
> improving things... in my sysctl i had (before disabling it all)
>
> # Lowest CPU frequency in MHz to offer to users
> debug.cpufreq.lowest=932
>
>
> ### trying to finetune the action of the thermal zones
> ## man 4 acpi_thermal
> ## for details
> ## Defaults:
> #hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0
> #hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10
> #hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 91.0C
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 0
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 94.5C
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 99.0C
> #hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
> ## Custom values
> hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1
> hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime=10
> hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate=5
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active=85C
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV=90C
>
> Any help / pointers would be greatly appreciated...
Some more info :
$ kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 34 0xc0400000 4c3d24 kernel
2 1 0xc08c4000 836c linprocfs.ko
3 3 0xc08cd000 21ebc linux.ko
4 1 0xc08ef000 135e0 snd_hda.ko
5 2 0xc0903000 68e48 sound.ko
6 2 0xc096c000 17920 agp.ko
7 2 0xc0984000 666a8 acpi.ko
8 1 0xc09eb000 4c4c acpi_ibm.ko
9 1 0xc09f0000 b668 cpufreq.ko
10 1 0xc09fc000 1d498 kqemu.ko
11 1 0xc0a1a000 22140 radeon.ko
12 2 0xc0a3d000 10c68 drm.ko
13 1 0xc5d86000 c000 ipfw.ko
14 1 0xc5e93000 7000 aio.ko
15 1 0xc9fbd000 2000 rtc.ko
Powerd is enabled.
I am currently doing not much at all (listening to music stream, load of 0.24, 0.45, 0.69) and tz0 = 78C. it drops down a lot more when running on batteries only
B
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