system temperature too high, shutting down soon!

[Astrodog]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:57:39 +0000, Saber Zrelli <zrelli at jaist.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi all ,
> 
> I'm runnig FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0 on an IBM Thinkpad R50p ,
> when I run some make install in the ports distribution.
> 
> I got the following message :
> tornado root: WARNING: system temperature too high, shutting down soon!
> 
> After 2-3 secs the system shuts down.
> 
> when I looked in /var/log/messages after booting ,  I found :
> Mar  2 21:24:18 tornado kernel: cpu0: Performance states changed
> Mar  2 21:24:39 tornado kernel: cpu0: Performance states changed
> Mar  2 21:24:39 tornado root: WARNING: system temperature too high,
> shutting down soon!
> 
> I was using 5.3 CURRENT ( and previous releases ) a while before , and I
> did not have this problem.
> 
> my first thoughts is that it is a ACIP problem. but I dont have
> knowledge about ACPI stuff.
> 
> I think that some parameters in hw.acpi.thermal are not correct.
> 
> hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0
> hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3312
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 3647
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 3672
> hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
> 
> specially hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx    , there is no cooling level
> temperatures defined.
> Also , the hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 3672 ,hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV:
> 3647 are too close ,
> the cpu don't have enough time to cool down before reaching the critical
> temp.
> 
> I tried debugging the ACPI module , so I compiled it with debuggin options .
> but the kernel could not load it and I was running without acpi.
> 
> I attached < sysctl -a > and < cat /lvar/og/messages >
> 
> I want to keep using ACPI , and I really need to fix this.
> 
> For any suggestions ,
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> --
> Saber.

Have you considered, that maybe its just running too hot? (Without
ACPI, it has no way to make that determination)