overheatd-0.1.tar.xz (2010-10-22)
From time to time, my laptop decides to shutdown when the temperature is above 100 °C. That's not funny, so I had to do something about it.
This little daemon looks every 5 seconds if the temperature is above a certain level (default 90 °C). If it is, it'll advise the CPU to go into powersafe mode (lowest possible speed) via cpufreq. If the temperature is low again, it'll set it back to ondemand.
I'm not sure what this tool does if the number of CPUs is 10 or above - it may run wild, crash, I don't know. If you made any experience, feel free to email me.
I'm a poor programmer and fiddling with the temperature of your CPU may be dangerous. I won't buy you a new one if it burns yours. In other words: Use at your own risk.
I don't like licensing incompatibilities, so I decided to release code as "public domain" (strictly speaking this is not possible in Germany where I come from, but I give you all rights on my code, which means the same). This means: Do with it whatever you want.
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