On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:55:19PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > > 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 :)
I applied this latest patch and it worked so far. I'll do a liitle mor stress-testing this evening. I'll also look into MacOSX. Best regards, Wolfi
