Quick question about dev.smu dev.smusat on powermac11,2

[Michael Copeland]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:

> It should work fine (it does on my desktop, which is a G5 of the same
> model). Since I wrote that program, fan control has moved to the kernel.
> The fans should be fairly quickly responsive (the algorithm is quite basic)
> but should never go to full or cause a panic. Which release are you
> running? There were some improvements to fan control in 9.1.
> -Nathan
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Michael Copeland wrote:
>
>  Is the fan control disabled by default on a GP dual core? Only reason I
>> ask
>> is that the fans on spool up under full load, and that usually results in
>> a
>> panic.
>> I did make a rather simple program and associated script to control the
>> fans, but this happens to result in the fans constantly going up and down
>> by about 300-400 rpm even while doing something simple like portsnap
>> extract. I checked the list after doing that, and found a thread where
>> someone else already did the same thing(a common problem of mine, I
>> usually
>> try to fix it myself without checking the list). I swapped out the program
>> written by Nathan, but my results are the same. It DOES work, but I was
>> only wondering if it's normal for the fan speed to vary so often.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
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>>  Hi Nathan,

It's 9.1-PRE, from.. 3 days ago.
The fans, without my app running either spin at the lowest rpm, or the
fastest. Once it's at max rpm, in 5 minutes it will panic.