SantaRosaFanControl
Finding that my MacBookPro 3.1 (MacBookPro/SantaRosa) was getting incredibly hot, even with applesmc installed.
Trivia (how I came to write this and other boring details)
I first tried to set the fans to 3000rpm, but even then, at the end of the day it would remain hot. At least, the writer of the comment I have followed gave me the base knowledge on how to deal with applesmc.
From then I have written a stupid little script, that grew a bit along a couple week of testing, which controls the minimum fan speed so that it stays at a reasonable temperature. The model is quite weird because it's a linear one (the rpm grows linearly as the temperature grows, trying to find the best possible equilibrium between the value range you give it). Maybe a log or a sinus one should have been more efficient, but I am still trying to figure how to do a log in bash, when you have to remain in the great world of integer.
Other quirk: we have 2 fans and 8 sensors. Which one are left, or right, no one tells, so for now I do an average on the main 4 ones (the one I have seen growing the hotest first). I average them and base my cooling on it.
Also, I came to realize a bit late, that when setting the minimum fan speed to one, applesmc seems to take over regulation. This is why when it tops cleanly, it leave the value to 1. If you leave it this way you core temperature is stabilzed around 56, which is a bit too hot but it works well to have a low fan speed. One of these days I'll have time to dig into applesmc to understand how it works...
Python Version
Sloth has written a python version of a similar script. You may want to check it out.
Version 0.5
- Wrong sensor was used for TEMP4
- Redirection did not work in init script
Version 0.4
Added a control of the hard drive power saving mode depending on wether the laptop is plugged in or not. This should help getting more life time out of HD for laptops which are connected most of the time. For more info on this, I recommend reading Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu on LWN].
- Added a TARGET temp so that if we start heating up too much, we force the maximum fan speed until we get back to TARGET
Thermodynamic model
The what ? Believe me, I am even surprised I know how to spell this 
the scripts
Warning
There is no guaranty that the model I am using works. Nobody but you take the responsability to install this on your laptop. If your laptop starts burning, start by turning it off then blame yourself. You've been warned !
tempmon (the main part)
The following scripts create a daemon that will regulate temperature for us. They (the 2 scripts) just require that the applesmc module be loaded (sudo modprobe applesmc to make sure). Create it as /usr/local/sbin/tempmon.
Note: the first line of this script should be "#!/bin/bash" but for some reason, moimoin does not display it even though it is present in the source of this page (click edit to check out).
# version 0.5 - 20080120
# A temperature daemon to help for a cooler MacBookPro 3.1
# Now also changes the power saving mode for the HD depending on
# on/off-line mode.
# Author nick barcet nickNOSPAM AT barcet DOT com
### W A R N I N G ###
# No guaranty whatsoever that it will do good to your computer.
# You can blame yourself for installing this if your processor
# decides to die tomorrow
do_init()
{
# I'm pretty happy with the following values but feel free to
# play with them. Just keep an eye on the values return by the sensors
# package.
# We set different value for on and off line, as we don't care
# about saving power when on-line.
if (cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ADP1/state | grep on-line > /dev/null); then
# We are online, be pretty cool
[ $debug -eq 1 ] && echo "state: on-line"
MIN=475 # temp in degree celsius x 10
MAX=540
let "RATIO = 6000 / ($MAX - $MIN)"
#no need for much hd power saving when on-line
hdparm -B 200 /dev/sda
else
[ $debug -eq 1 ] && echo "state: off-line"
MIN=510 # temp in degree celsius x 10
MAX=590
let "RATIO = 6000 / ($MAX - $MIN)"
#be more agressive on hd power-savings when off-line
hdparm -B 50 /dev/sda
fi
let "TARGET = ( ($MAX - $MIN)/3 ) + $MIN"
# let "HIGH = ( ($MAX - $MIN)/3 ) + $TARGET"
}
get_temp()
{
TEMP1=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp5_input`
TEMP2=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp8_input`
TEMP3=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp3_input`
TEMP4=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp4_input`
let "TEMP = ($TEMP1 + $TEMP2 + $TEMP3 + $TEMP4)/ 400"
}
debug=0
do_init
count=1
maxtempcount=0
while [ true ]; do
get_temp
[ $debug -eq 1 ] && echo "average temp: $TEMP (target: $TARGET, max: $MAX)"
let "SPEED = ($TEMP - $MIN) * $RATIO"
# Just to make sur we do not set fan >6000 or <0
if [ $SPEED -gt 6000 ]; then
SPEED=6000
elif [ $SPEED -lt 1 ]; then
SPEED=1
elif [ $TEMP -lt $TARGET ]; then
#let autoregulation work (if it does)
SPEED=1
fi
[ $debug -eq 1 ] && echo "set fan speed to: $SPEED (step: $RATIO)"
echo $SPEED > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_min
echo $SPEED > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min
if [ $TEMP -gt $MAX ]; then
[ $debug -eq 1 ] && echo "temp: $TEMP > max: $MAX"
let "maxtempcount = $maxtempcount + 1"
if [ $maxtempcount -gt 3 ]; then
while [ $TEMP -gt $TARGET ]; do
[ $debug -eq 1 ] && echo "Force fan speed to: 6000 until temp ($TEMP) = $TARGET"
echo 6000 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_min
echo 6000 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min
sleep 10
get_temp
let "count = $count + 2"
done
maxtempcount=0
else
sleep 5
let "count = $count+1"
fi
elif [ $SPEED -lt 2 ]; then
# Sleep longer when autoregulating
sleep 20
let "count = $count+4"
else
sleep 5
let "count = $count+1"
fi
if [ $count -gt 10 ]; then
count=0
do_init
fi
doneallow access rights to it by doing a :
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/sbin
tempmon.sh (the init.d script)
then add the following script as /etc/init.d/tempmon.sh :
Note: the first line of this script should be "#!/bin/sh" but for some reason, moimoin does not display it even though it is present in the source of this page (click edit to check out).
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: tempmon.sh
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Sets the MacBook minimum fan speed
# Description: Uses the applesmc kernel module to set the minimum
# fan speed that the Mac will leave the fan at.
### END INIT INFO
# Author: Jason Parekh jasonparekhNOSPAM AT gmail DOT com
# modified by nick barcet nickNOSPAM AT barcet DOT com
# Do NOT "set -e"
# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DESC="MacBook minimum fan speed setter"
NAME=tempmon
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
MIN_FAN_SPEED=3000
DEFAULT_MIN_FAN_SPEED=2000
# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
killall tempmon > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/local/sbin/tempmon > /dev/null 2>&1 &
}
#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
killall tempmon > /dev/null 2>&1
sleep 1
# Put the fan back to auto regulation
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_min
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min
}
case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
reload|force-reload|restart)
log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
log_end_msg 0
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
#echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
:allow access rights to it by doing a :
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/tempmon.sh
make sure that it starts and stops automatically :
sudo update-rc.d tempmon.sh defaults 90
Starting the daemon automatically
you can then start and stop the daemon by using the following call
sudo /etc/init.d/tempmon.sh {start|stop|reload}
NOTE: This page should be moved to the help.ubuntu.com wiki. This site is more for Team wiki pages rather than How-Tos and guides.
Extensions: One can add support for GPU (NVIDIA) temperature control by changing:
get_temp()
{
TEMP1=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp5_input`
TEMP2=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp8_input`
TEMP3=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp3_input`
TEMP4=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp4_input`
TEMP5=`nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp | grep 'Attribute' | awk '{print $4 * 1000}'`
let "TEMP = ($TEMP1 + $TEMP2 + $TEMP3 + $TEMP4 + $TEMP5)/ 500"
} Requires nvidia-settings to be installed.
Known problem
- For some unknown reason, moinmoin (the tool used to provide this wiki) arbitrarily cuts off the #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/sh which are at the top of each one of the above scripts. Please have a look at the version in edit mode not to be bitten by sh running instead of bash.
MacBookPro/SantaRosaFanControl (last edited 2011-04-21 11:08:42 by mx)