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Thanks Thomas, I'll definitely check it out. One feature I would like to see |
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is the ability to throttle the cpu to manage temperature. |
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My laptop occasionally reports spurious high temperatures. Within 3 polls |
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the temperature might be reported as 70C, 97C, 70C. When the kernel sees the |
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97C it powers off the system. |
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I've hacked around this by patching the kernel to run /sbin/overheat instead |
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of /sbin/poweroff. Overheat checks the temp again and if it's still hot, |
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shuts down powernowd and sets the cpufreq to its minimum value It then |
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sleeps for 5 seconds and if the temp is still 90C+, calls poweroff. |
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The downside is the system is now left in a very slow state. I have not |
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written something to bring it back to a dynamic clocking state. A daemon |
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that would manage all of this would be really appreciated! (Of course, the |
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kernel would still need to be patched to not poweroff until the daemon has |
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had a chance to try cooling things down.) |
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<dcm> |
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On 7/13/05, Thomas Tuttle <tom@×××××××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> I've been working on a program called powermgr. It's a daemon written |
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> in Perl that can control many power management functions on Linux, |
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> including CPU frequency and/or governor, screen brightness, laptop mode, |
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> fan speed, wireless power management, as well as runlevel and services, |
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> based on the state of the system. |
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