critical temperature reached

[NoOp]

On 01/20/2013 09:52 PM, Thufir Hawat wrote:
> 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

As Phil pointed out: Psensor

psensor:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/psensor

  Installed: 0.6.2.16-1ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 0.6.2.16-1ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.2.16-1ubuntu4.1 0
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        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.2.16-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64
Packages

Info:
<http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/>
Author's ppa is more up to date for precise (0.6.2.19-0precise1):
<https://launchpad.net/~jfi/+archive/ppa>