Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2023-04-08 at 10:17 -0400, songbird wrote:
> 
>   i have an intel processor and it has the MAX which does
> prevent it from going higher (100C), but i'd like to keep it
> at 70C or lower.
> 
>   i've been trying to find anything that will let me set this
> but no luck yet in my searches.

I installed 'thermald' to stop my CPUs hitting the max junction
temperature and hard resetting after a few minutes. I was quite
surprised that the standard kernel doesn't actually have thermal
protection which throttles CPU clocks and requires an external
userspace program to do this.

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Tixy