Comment 40 for bug 1600599

Readers: I started with Mike when he was originally posting on bug #1188647 and we continued via e-mail before he came here. I do not know thermald at all, but have been running it with a trip point of 55 degrees (because my test server runs quite cool) while following here.

Mike said:
> I can't always get my load temp up to 97C, sometimes it takes a lot of work. ;)

That is not consistent with the turbostat data you sent me, which shows a package temperature of 98 degrees under about 70% load.

Colin said:
> after cleaning the fan and replacing the thermal paste on my
> aging laptop I saw an amazing improvement:

@Mike: Yes, and at the risk of losing a good user test case, I suspect you need to re-do the thermal paste between your processor and its heat sink. You and I have have similar vintage processors, with identical TDPs, although mine is an i7 and yours is an i5. Under light load (I matched the package power of mine with your turbostat output) my processor runs 13 degrees cooler than yours. Under higher load (again I matched package power) my processor runs 30 degrees cooler then yours.
If Srinivas does want logs,then please post them here, for the education of others following this (i.e. me).