> I did that and it worked. The stress test this time was the above loop > with your chip-friendly extension and a while (true); do echo; done in > another terminal. The fan startet at 60 centigrades: > And the parameter you gave changes the limit from 50 to 60, so tha fan > starts at a higher temperature. Shouldn't this foster overheating > instead of prevent it?
Well, probably setting the limit too low is not a good idea... According to Marco, the fan starts at about 62°C under OS X. So, here is another patch with better defaults for the powerbook. Keep me informed :) -- Colin
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