bug#26919: [PATCH] Add thermald and thermald-service-type (for cpu frequency scaling)

[Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>> Do you think it’s something we should add to ‘%base-services’, or is it
>>> too hardware-dependent?
>>
>> It does seem like an unusual requirement to me, since most systems
>> should do thermal management automatically in the CPU and BIOS.
>>
>> I can run my physical machines (GuixSD or Debian) at full CPU
>> utilization for extended periods of time without overheating.
>
> Yes, same here actually.  Could it be due to this particular Libreboot +
> X200 combination?  Or are we just lucky that other systems don’t
> overheat as well?
>
> Ludo’.

I'm on a libreboot + x200 machine.  Notably it never overheats... unless
it's docked.  Then it's liable to overheat, because the circulation
while being docked is, I guess, pretty bad?  Unfortunately, I am docked
pretty much all the time!

Do you use a dock regularly, out of curiosity?  It could be that it's
time to open up and de-dustrabbit :)

 - Chris