I have been having an overheating issue which makes my laptop shutdown immediately. Is there anyway to monitor the temperature from the sensor and scale down the CPU frequency to avoid that problem? Is there any existing software or shell script that can handle that job?
Linux Monitoring – Overheating Results in System Shutdown
cpulinuxmonitoringtemperature
Best Answer
You should have a look at
cpufreq-set
andcpufreq-info
. On Debian and derived distros they are in thecpufrequtils
package. For example, on an old laptop with a bad fan that I use as a file server at home I have made these settings: