[ltp] Temperature increase after S2Ram

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 07 Jul 2013, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 23:39 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > 0) It seems I'm running into a similar issue but on a X61. On an
> > uninteresting Gnome 3 session, running roughly 99% idle, the CPU
> > temperature usually stays below 50 C. But after a few suspend and resume
> > cycles, still on an equally undemanding, session the CPU temperature
> > rises a bit above 60 C.
> > 
> > 1) The rather course test
> >     watch "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz"
> > 
> > suggests that at this moment the second (of two) cores is stuck at 2 GHz
> > (which I guess is full throttle). Could that be causing this?
> 
> Somehow, taking that second core offline and online again, through
> the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online interface, stops it running at
> full throttle. After that a mostly idle system will have both cores
> running at 800 MHz (the lower bound, apparently) most of the time. CPU
> temperature then remains below 50 C again.

This is not the first report that 3.10 is a dud.  Make extremely sure you
have _NOT_ enabled the new "full tickless" mode, that thing is broken to
kingdon come [either that, or it gets all zombies to come out in the open].

Check with powertop and turbostat to make sure the cores are idling
properly (i.e. hitting c3 and c6), as well.

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  Henrique Holschuh