[Tfug] CPU Query

Jim Secan jim at nwra.com
Tue Apr 3 07:40:13 MST 2007


At 09:31 AM 4/3/2007 -0500, Jeremy wrote:
>The BIOS will automatically kill a machine when the die gets too hot
>on most modern systems, but I think you can also make linux deal with
>this gracefully so you don't loose data at hour 100. You'll have to
>verify it, but I think it's an ACPI thing (probably the 'thermal'
>module). Look into docs about acpi thermal zones.

Probably a good idea.  I could set this up to check on the system temps
between each data run and either fold its tent or just sleep for a period
prior to continuing.

Thanks.
Jim
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