This script change the CPU governor according to the temperature detected. Useful when your linux laptop is shutting down because the cpu is reaching 100°C. Script attached to: CPU overheats during high usage "throttling <not supported>" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22336

temperature_regulation.sh

#!/bin/sh
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# Copyright (C) 2005 Francois COJEAN
# Copyleft 2007 Sun Seng David TAN

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# this script change the CPU governor according to the temperature detected.
# Note : this script need to be run as root.
# TODO : maybe use inotify

# Set up the different variables
# Edit all this variable to value which fit to your computer

POWERSAVE_SCALING_GOVERNOR="powersave"
CONSERVATIVE_SCALING_GOVERNOR="conservative"
ONDEMAND_SCALING_GOVERNOR="ondemand"

CPU_FREQ_PATH="/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq"
SCALING_GOVERNOR_FILE="scaling_governor"
TEMPERATURE_ACPI_PATH="/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZS0"

TEMPERATURE_MAX=87
TEMPERATURE_SAFE=73



while true; do
TEMPERATURE="`cat $TEMPERATURE_ACPI_PATH/temperature |cut -d' ' -f14`"
echo $TEMPERATURE
if [ $TEMPERATURE -gt $TEMPERATURE_MAX ]
then
echo "$POWERSAVE_SCALING_GOVERNOR" > $CPU_FREQ_PATH/$SCALING_GOVERNOR_FILE
echo "CPU_FREQ : $POWERSAVE_SCALING_GOVERNOR enable"
fi
if [ $TEMPERATURE -lt $TEMPERATURE_SAFE ]
then
echo "$ONDEMAND_SCALING_GOVERNOR" > $CPU_FREQ_PATH/$SCALING_GOVERNOR_FILE
echo "CPU_FREQ : $ONDEMAND_SCALING_GOVERNOR enable"
fi
sleep 1
done