Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:03:11 +0100 | From | Samuel Rydh <> | Subject | Re: [.config] CONFIG_THERM_WINDTUNNEL |
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:27:28PM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Samuel Rydh wrote: > > > Btw, I would like to get reports about how well this driver works > > with respect to noise reduction. I'm in particular interested > > in the dual 1.4 GHz model... > > The author has a dual-1.2 and I tested it on another dual-1.2. I don't > know if it has been tested on other mathines. The driver writes in > the system logs the temperature and the fan speed every time they change, > so you can check what it's doing (and you can unload the module if you > see it does something wrong).
Yes I know... I wrote it :-)
It should be perfectly safe to use. It contains a (very conservative) fail safe; if the temperature exceeds the working point by a few degrees, the hardware overheat protection is programmed to turn on the fans 100%. This works even if the kernel has locked up solidly.
I'm mostly concerned that the working point is set too low for the 1.4 Ghz machine. If it is, then there might be some unnecessary noise. When the temperature is going down towards the working point, the fan speed is increased to remove the last extra heat. The assumption is that some temporary heat generating operation has finished (like a CPU intensive calculation or heavy usage of the graphics card). This is a good strategy if the working point is correct but not-so-good if the working point is higher than expected (cyclic fan behavior might occur).
In all cases, it should be an improvement compared to the firmware setting which is incredibly noisy and usually causes short period fan speed cycling.
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