Mac mini and FreeBSD - fans

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 7:26 PM +1000 1/31/05, Peter Grehan wrote:
>Hi Garance,
>
>>Okay.  I added those two updates, and I was able to do a complete
>>buildworld/installworld cycle.
>
>  Great news :-)
>
>>The only noticeable problem when I rebooted was a stream of
>>complaints about ttya, so I just changed the entry for that
>>from 'on' to 'off' in /etc/ttys.
>
>  Yes, that's a relic of the recent tty subsystem changes.
>  I'll fix that.
>
>  I'll go through the mods:

I noticed you had commited some of the changes to the base
system, so I rebuilt my Mac-mini with the system as of about
February 8th.  (I was going to rebuild it again today, but
I was sidetracked by completely unrelated stuff).

Since rebuilding, I have seen one case where the machine just
locked up.  No error messages, no panic messages, but it was not
listening to the keyboard or allowing any ssh connections.  It is
probably obvious for me to say:   I don't know what that was.

One thing that I have noticed:  After the machine has been running
freebsd for awhile (maybe 30-minutes to an hour), the fans in the
Mac-mini are going at full blast.  I don't know if the machine
thinks it is overheating.  This happens even when I'm not doing
much on it, and if I run 'top' it shows the machine is over 95% idle.

If I leave the machine up in MacOS 10, the fans are only running
like that after I keep it very busy for awhile.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu