[ltp] Critical Temperature Trip Points?

[Jose Celestino]

Words by David Abrahams [Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:23:23AM -0400]:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last week I overheated (again) while compiling GCC with -j4 and so I
> decided to look at the problem again.  This had appeared in my syslog:
> 
> Apr 24 13:42:43 mcbain kernel: [12867.111092] ACPI: Critical trip point
> Apr 24 13:42:43 mcbain kernel: [12867.111100] Critical temperature reached (100 C), shutting down.
> Apr 24 13:42:43 mcbain kernel: [12867.160581] Critical temperature reached (95 C), shutting down.
> 
...
> 3. Is the BAT0 temperature reasonable?  All the fan control scripts I
>    can find kick the fan up to maximum when BAT0 reaches 50C.  Perhaps
>    not surprisingly to you, IBM-ACPI seems to have the same idea about
>    the meaning of my sensors as t60-fancontrold does.  It surprised me a
>    little because I assumed t60-fancontrold was mis-labelling BAT0.
> 

That seems a lot to BATn. Even when charging, when it gets to its high, it
never passes 45C on my T61p and I find that a lot already.

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