Captain Dondo staggered into the Black Sun and said: > V Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:10:07 +0200, Jens Ruecknagel napsal(a): >> PIII-Coppermine 800MHz laptop. I disconnected the fan, I used cpu_freq >> to downclock it permanently to 650MHz. The system is quiet and cool-- >> except if system load gets very high. Then the CPU Temp rises above 70 C. >> Is there a tool/module to keep the CPU from getting too hot? > You could set up a daemon that wakes up, say, 10 times a second, checks > cpu temp (see lmsensors package), The hardware that lm_sensors reads typically responds more slowly than that. You'd probably want to read at 1 Hz, not 10. > and if necessary, downclocks it some more. When temp drops, it > upclocks it. This sounds like reinventing the wheel. cpufreqd has a plugin and rules for CPU temp, though I don't know whether the acpi_temperature plugin would give good data on an old box like that. The "big heatsink" suggestion another poster put up probably won't work; laptops don't generally have much extra room for additional metal+fins. -- Life is a persistent hallucination, Death a mere illusion. Taxes, however, are Objective Reality. Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see