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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:03:08 -0500
From:      "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com>
To:        vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysctl debug.cpufreq.highest
Message-ID:  <1226368988.1244.3.camel@RabbitsDen>
In-Reply-To: <20081108012734.3274F1E3055@f03.poczta.interia.pl>
References:  <20081108012734.3274F1E3055@f03.poczta.interia.pl>

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On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 02:27 +0100, vermaden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently there is possibility to set lowest speed of
> cpu for scaling with cpufreq (debug.cpufreq.lowest),
> it would be good to include also a option to set the
> highest possible freq to use with cpufreq, some laptops
> get too hot and/or consume too much power when running
> on maximum power/speed of cpu.

If temperature is the concern, you could override passive cooling
threshold by putting something like 

hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz1._PSV=75C

into your /etc/sysctl.conf

You will need to figure out which thermal zone you need to override _PSV
for (in my case tz1) and what do you want to cap temperature at (in my
case 75C)

HTH,
-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)




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