In article <56af205f.2030...@marples.name>, Roy Marples <r...@marples.name> wrote: >On 30/01/2016 19:39, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >> In general, I personally don't think it ever makes sense to shutdown >> by default when the temperature is exceeded, since most of these >> sensors aren't really all that reliable (especially if you're getting >> them over i2c, with potential bus locking issues and race conditions >> with BIOS / IPMI; getting a bit sidelined, at the very least, the >> sensor values should be dampened, which is what's done in OpenBSD's >> sensorsd, not sure if anything similar is done here). > >I disagree with this. >On my IBM ThinkPad z60m, the fan is so knackered it has to be on it's >side when compiling. If the BIOS thinks it's too hot then emit's some >warning bleeps. If it gets hotter then it powers itself down. >I would much rather the system shutdown gracefully compared to having >the power rudely yanked.
If the machine thinks that it is running hot, you better believe it. I burned a VAIO motherboard once because I kept it running hot. christos
