critical temperature reached

[Thufir Hawat]

from /var/log/syslog:

Jan 20 21:05:08 dur kernel: [ 3372.987672] thermal_sys: Critical 
temperature reached (63 C), shutting down


Can I get thermal_sys, and presumably it's either this or something 
similar:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c

Can I get thermal_sys to report anything pegging the cpu beforehand it 
reaches critical (is there a category before critical?) and limit that 
process to prevent this?

Or, can I watch thermal_sys somehow?

I was thinking of something like top, except just reporting the single 
top process and if the cpu temp is nearing critical and that process 
stays at the top, then that's the one to throttle down.  Something like 
that?

Although I've seen another approach of limiting any one process from 
taking up more that a certain amount of the cpu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=992706



thanks,

Thufir