Thermal Problem

[Ivan Voras]

Marinos Ilias wrote:
> Hello people,
> I have a Dell XPS M1210 with Core 2 Duo (T7200) etc and I wonder if the temperatures that my laptop has with FreeBSD are normal .While idling it has about 62.5 C and on heavy load (qemu and compiling) I 've seen about 84.5 C.I feel I can boil an egg on my laptop.I want to mention that with debian I had before I 've never seen so big temperatures.

Unless you measured the temperature with the computer's BIOS (e.g. by 
looking at the BIOS's screen about thermal data), don't trust the values 
too much.

Also, try running powerd.

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