Comment 79 for bug 370173

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Andreas Kostyrka (andreas-kostyrka) wrote : Re: [Bug 370173] Re: Ubuntu 9.04 laptop overheat and shutdown

Am Montag, den 15.06.2009, 13:57 +0000 schrieb arsenix:
> Michal I think 50C is pretty much normal operating temp for a Core2 Duo
> laptop. I think if you run under windows you will find it is similar.
> Thermal shutdown temp is well over 100C.
>
> I think we should focus on users who are getting thermal shutdowns since
> that is pretty much guaranteed to be a critical bug. Temperatures which
> are just "higher than I think they should be" are very difficult to
> judge quantitatively.
>
> Andreas can you post some fan speed information? Before thermal
> shutdown of the machine what are the fans doing?

How can I query the fan speed? /proc/acpi/fan is empty.

Subjectivly, it's running fast, but no idea how fast in exact numbers.

I've got powertop, temperature logs, and cpufreq logs.

Interestingly, looking at the data it seems that 2.6.28 even crashed
with the CPUs running at 800MHz.

Andreas