Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:02:11 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: "nw1" <network101@covad.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variablesnotavailable-- Message-ID: <20031103220211.254679db.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <008c01c3a291$83406920$0300a8c0@install> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311032052420.22706-100000@server1.ultratrends.com> <008c01c3a291$83406920$0300a8c0@install>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:07:14 -0500 "nw1" <network101@covad.net> wrote: > This does make absolute sense, but this isn't a publicly accessable > machine, so it would rarely reach that max_load to cause it to > overheat as its doing now, provided, I can find someone to answer the > second outstanding question; Where are those sysctl variables that i > was previously able to set? They are no longer available You know, it's a good question - just for kicks, I tried this on my two FreeBSD machines: FreeBSD 4.9-RC #1: Wed Oct 15 08:12:11 PDT 2003: # apm apm: can't open /dev/apm: Device not configured # sysctl machdep.apm_standby_delay machdep.apm_standby_delay: 1 FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #1: Sat Nov 1 09:16:30 PST 2003: # apm APM version: 1.2 APM Management: disabled AC Line status: unknown (... etc ...) # sysctl machdep.apm_standby_delay sysctl: unknown oid 'machdep.apm_standby_delay' ...which is a bit odd, to say the least. If anything, I would've expected the machine that doesn't have APM support compiled in to the kernel, to be the one with no understanding of APM-related sysctls. But, it's the other way around. Maybe something changed in the last two weeks? But you're running 4.8-RELEASE-p13 - I'd expect that to be (essentially) older than either of my installations... Anyway, those two oids don't seem to be documented under sysctl(8). And googling on them doesn't yield a lot. I really have no idea, I just thought I'd throw this out there as another data point. (This issue seems to be generating more heat than light, if you'll pardon the pun :) -Chris
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