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linux-on-mac / mbpfan

A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer
https://ineed.coffee/projects/mbpfan
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Feauture Request: Intelligent cooling mode(s) #240

Closed arch-user-france1 closed 2 years ago

arch-user-france1 commented 3 years ago

I would like an intelligent cooling mode like apple already has

If the CPU temperate is 80 degrees, nothing happens but if it is like 90 for 1 minute then the fans begin spinning a lot faster I like this feauture but I just hate that it's so long to trigger.

Maybe if you're bored you might want to do a customizable intelligent cooling mode?

gaul commented 2 years ago

I think mbpfan already works this way? You can use mbpfan -f -v to see what it is doing and configure the behavior via the config file.

hamishmb commented 2 years ago

Would this necessarily be a feature? It sounds to me like this would have the same problem as Apple's existing cooling fancurve - allowing systems to overheat massively and taking far too long to do anything about it.

arch-user-france1 commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure but what I know is that apple systems don't overheat usually, or only a little bit. The problem is apple's cooling system, how it works, itself!

I'm not using mbpfan anymore.. So I will close that.