how to crank the cooling fan to max on f12?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  a couple times recently, during a lengthy compile, my f12 laptop
maxed out in terms of critical temperature and simply shut itself
down.  the fan has always been a bit weird, normally oscillating
between fast and slow speed with a period of a few seconds.  can i
just manually set the fan to maximum speed?

  i can (allegedly) examine the current temp via
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ00/temperature, which currently shows 82C
(that's gone up significantly in the last couple minutes since i
started the build).  so i just want to max the fan, if that's
possible.  thoughts?

rday
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