Management of Thermal

[Lars Engels]

Quoting Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:27:56 +1000
> Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:

> Powerd is enabled.
>
> I am currently doing not much at all (listening to music stream,   
> load of  0.24, 0.45, 0.69) and tz0  = 78C. it drops down a lot more   
> when running on batteries only
>

Hi Norberto,

your temperature values are a little bit too high. On my Notebook
(model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz) the CPU is  
at between 50°C - 60°C when I use normal desktop applications and up  
to 80°C when I compile something.
You could open your case and look if there's dust in the airflow so  
the fans cannot blow out all the hot air.
I only use the powerd with "-a adaptive -b adaptive" flags. There  
should be no need for the cpufreq module.

Lars