overheating problem with Acer Aspire 5520-5679 AMD-64

[YAMAMOTO, Taku]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 06:27:31 -0500
eculp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:

> I am running up to date current amd64 and am having issues with the  
> laptop just stopping with no warning and it seems to be due to  
> overheating.  If I keep the room temp cooler or keep air circulating  
> under it, it doesn't happen.

Try increasing sysctl kern.sched.idlespinthresh to, say, 7, 15 or 100.
I wonder the default threshold is too low for anything but busy servers.


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