Comment 23 for bug 1491797

The thermald throttling malfunctioning is interesting.

Yes, I believe my laptop is among the several % of portables having cooling issues due to old age and/or on-the-edge design. Like I said, it's a common ailment. Just google "ubuntu laptop overheating" to find out how common. What are we supposed to do to fix that? Approach thermal grease manufacturers about the short life of their products? Solving my problem overhauling my computer is not fixing the problem, it's cover up.

Now how about fixing all the ways the kernel is behaving badly in all those overheating machines?

Things for software to do in an overheating case (from the original bug report):
-use the fan up to its maximum speed (not up to what a designer years ago assumed would probably be enough)
-throttle the CPU (thermald troubleshooting in progress)
-in a heat emergency, suspend in 1 second instead of shutting down wasting 8 seconds and my session