diagonising a overheating problem

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd at chillt.de> wrote:
> Try sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature. I have a notoriously overheating Dell
> laptop and for me, this sysctl always reports the temperature.
>
> - Bartosz

~/Desktop aryeh at localhost% sysctl dev.cpu.0.temperature
sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.cpu.0.temperature'
~/Desktop aryeh at localhost% sysctl dev.cpu.0
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.C000
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1500
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1500/7260 1400/6056 1225/5299 1200/5125
1100/4500 1000/4095 900/3753 800/3468 700/3034 600/2601 500/2167
400/1734 300/1300 200/867 100/433
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 C2/100
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% last 233us