This variable defines at which interval in seconds the main loop of fancontrol will be executed DEVPATH First I'm going to describe the various variables available for changing fancontrol's behaviour: INTERVAL Since most of you are going to use pwmconfig(8) script, the config file syntax will be discussed last. Alternatively you can write this file yourself using the information from this manpage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a major issue, the fans will get slightly warmer, just be sure to have a temperature alarm and/or shutdown call, in case some fan fails, because you probably won't hear it anymore ) Configurationįor easy configuration, there's a script named pwmconfig(8) which lets you interactively write your configuration file for fancontrol. Also please keep in mind most fans aren't designed to be powered by a PWMed voltage. So if you plan to use these components in 50 years, maybe you shouldn't use fancontrol at all. Please be careful when using the fan control features of your mainboard, in addition to the risk of burning your CPU, at higher temperatures there will be a higher wearout of your other hardware components, too.

It reads its configuration from a file, then calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values.

Automated software based fan speed regulation Synopsisįancontrol is a shell script for use with lm_sensors.

Man fancontrol