Re: Throttling RPi4 CPU to Avoid Overheating

[Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf@gmail.com>]

Op zaterdag 27 juli 2024 23:11:05 CEST schreef MPJ Grégoire:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a RaspberryPi 4, running Debian Stable.  From time to time, the
> system overheats under load and shuts down.  Is there software I could
> run or a setting I could configure that would throttle back the CPU to
> keep the temperature under (say) 85°C?
> 
> Thanks very much for supporting Raspberry Pi computers.
> 
> Sincerely,

You could bye a housing with ventilator and a small device to turn the 
ventilator on when the the temperature reaches a certain value. There is a 
small Python script that reads regularly the temperature and turns the 
ventilator on till it reaches a configurable lower temperature.

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fr.gr.

Freek de Kruijf