Re: dbcool, envsys, powerd shutting down my machine

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <56AF205F.2030709%marples.name@localhost>,
Roy Marples  <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
>On 30/01/2016 19:39, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
>> In general, I personally don't think it ever makes sense to shutdown
>> by default when the temperature is exceeded, since most of these
>> sensors aren't really all that reliable (especially if you're getting
>> them over i2c, with potential bus locking issues and race conditions
>> with BIOS / IPMI; getting a bit sidelined, at the very least, the
>> sensor values should be dampened, which is what's done in OpenBSD's
>> sensorsd, not sure if anything similar is done here).
>
>I disagree with this.
>On my IBM ThinkPad z60m, the fan is so knackered it has to be on it's
>side when compiling. If the BIOS thinks it's too hot then emit's some
>warning bleeps. If it gets hotter then it powers itself down.
>I would much rather the system shutdown gracefully compared to having
>the power rudely yanked.

If the machine thinks that it is running hot, you better believe it.
I burned a VAIO motherboard once because I kept it running hot.

christos