On 9/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Sep 30 04:41:32 2006 ...
reader kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Sep 30 04:41:32 2006 ...
reader kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
[...]
Some kind of attempt by kernel to cool things down. But will it
actually shutdown if it gets dangerously hot?
Nope, not the kernel. Modern CPUs have built-in thermal
throttling...if they get too hot, they reduce their clocks until
things cool down. They generate an exception when this occurs, which
the kernel sees and logs if you have the right ACPI options enabled.
They will also simply shutdown if the temperature gets too warm.
However, this would generally be bad, as no clean shutdown or even
disk sync would occur.
Further, how can I discover what temperatures were involved when this
happened?
Download the processor specs from the manufacturer's web site....that
should list the throttle and shutdown temperatures.
Or can I set something to make a shutdown happen at a specific
temperature?
Install and run acpid, and you should get ACPI temperature events
passed through to /etc/acpi/default.sh, which you can edit to handle
in whatever way you see fit.
-Richard
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