From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 04:26:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0111065672 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 04:26:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from taku@tackymt.homeip.net) Received: from basalt.tackymt.homeip.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:3e0:577:0:20d:61ff:fecc:2253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9278FC13 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 04:26:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from taku@tackymt.homeip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by basalt.tackymt.homeip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808E210749; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:26:40 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tackymt.homeip.net Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basalt.tackymt.homeip.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eTUgZytasUqs; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:26:37 +0900 (JST) Received: from biotite (unknown [IPv6:2001:200:148:401:216:d3ff:fe2f:f465]) by basalt.tackymt.homeip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:26:37 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:26:33 +0900 From: "YAMAMOTO, Taku" To: eculp Message-Id: <20080529132633.69f9fde5.taku@tackymt.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20080528062731.97912c9n9sekrrtw@intranet.encontacto.net> References: <20080528062731.97912c9n9sekrrtw@intranet.encontacto.net> Organization: Trans New Technology, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: overheating problem with Acer Aspire 5520-5679 AMD-64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 04:26:41 -0000 On Wed, 28 May 2008 06:27:31 -0500 eculp wrote: > I am running up to date current amd64 and am having issues with the > laptop just stopping with no warning and it seems to be due to > overheating. If I keep the room temp cooler or keep air circulating > under it, it doesn't happen. Try increasing sysctl kern.sched.idlespinthresh to, say, 7, 15 or 100. I wonder the default threshold is too low for anything but busy servers. -- -|-__ YAMAMOTO, Taku | __ < - A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs. -