I have a pretty badly ventilated computer whose temperature reaches 100º C in some occasions. The poor thing can't be ventilated any better ("put a bigger fan" is not a suitable solution). When the CPU reaches 100º C, the machine stops "violently" (just shuts down). That machine is running Ubuntu 10.10 with lm-sensors-3 (the installed package is lm-sensors 1:3.1.2-6)
I know what program is causing the issue (a very demanding media player) I could actually stop it for a while without causing major disruptions when the temperature reaches 98º C and boot it again when it reaches… lets say 90º C.
Is that possible to do something like that directly through lm-sensors or do I have to create my own process that checks lm-sensors periodically and "does its things" depending on the temperature?
Thank you in advance.
Best Answer
It depends on what is the output of
sensors
. If yours is something like mine:then you can use the following script, adapting it accordingly. Besides
TEMP_STOP
andTEMP_START
, you should change the regular expression that filters the line fromsensors
you want to use. It's the parameter togrep
, in thetemp
function.