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Overheating

Posted May 22, 2008 16:24 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Overheating by ajtucker
Parent article: Matthew Garrett on the race to idle

I still stand by the comment that it should be possible to tell the governor to take into account the CPU temperature and trip points and throttle back if necessary.
Since you have been happy with a userspace solution for that, you can also use a userspace solution in combination with ondemand:

Just lower the cpufreq/scaling_max_freq value when the CPU gets too hot. This will make ondemand lower the maximum frequency it chooses.


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