Overheating attributed to Freebsd --sysctl variables not available--

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Jud wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:57:38 -0500, nw1 <network101 at covad.net> wrote:

> >>> Basically, the machine is overheating (I believe)
> >>> because the cpu's aren't cycling down.
> >>> Previously I was able to cycle the processors down
> >>> with the following sysctl variables:
> >>>
> >>> machdep.apm_suspend_delay:
> >>> machdep.apm_standby_delay:
> >>>
> >>> however, for some reason those variables currently,
> >>> aren't any where to be found by the
> >>> up_and_running system.  Please use the hyperlink
> >>> above for details.

> You may want to have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/fvcool.  (If you'd like 
> a script to run it on startup, Dr. Matthew Seaman posted one to the 
> mailing list some months ago - January?)

Indeed I did.  You can download it from

    http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/fvcool.tgz

One of these days I must a) update the script to use the rcNG stuff
and b) submit it to the maintainer of the fvcool port.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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