[ltp] Re: _very_ high temperatures

[Karel Podvolecky]

Anthony J Moulen napsal(a):
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:44, Jiang Qian wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:47PM +0100, Karel Podvolecky wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>  first of all, sorry for my bad English :-).
>>>  I have serious troubles with temperatures on my T60 (2007-F4G). When I
>>> did last week system update in Gentoo and went out. When I came back,
>>> the /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal says:
>>> cpu 110 C
>>> gpu 110 C
>>> and my TP was as hot as a chicken on a grill. Yestereday, my TP had a
>>> hard lock, again it was too hot.
>>>
>>> In all cases, fan was running at ~3800RPM. I never saw running it over
>>> 4000RPM. I think, my TP is unable to cool down enough. What can I do? I
>>> cannot use all power of core duo, when I have to take care of
>>> temperature. It has normally temperatures over 90 C when one core is
>>> under load.
>>>
>>> My core duo has 1.83GHz max. I cannot imagine, how can *p models with
>>> core duo at 2.13GHz cool down itself :-/. weird...
>>>       
>> I don't have a T60, but you seriously need to call the technical support
>> of IBM/Lenovo. I'm pretty sure this is not normal at all and you have a
>> problematic thinkpad. If it is not under warranty, you may want to check
>> if the thermal gel is properly applied.
>> Jiang
>>     
> This is definitely not right, I have a Z61M which uses the same chip 
> essentially (but mine is a 2ghz) and I know a couple of people with T60P 
> units with the 1.83 chip and none of us have this problem.  Check you CPU 
> usage.  Mine will get warm when at high CPU usage but still not that hot.  I 
> don't know which number represents the CPU versus the GPU on the termartures 
> list but nonthing in mine is over 60.  I run Gentoo 2006.1 with KDE, and 
> several of the people I work with have T60Ps  with gentoo on them and none of 
> them are complaining about heat issues. 
>
> What you didn't include is which kernel you are using on Gentoo.  
>   
Of course, I forgot.
gentoo 2006.1
Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r2
fglrx 8.32.5
GPU at minimal frequencies (cca 120MHz gpu+ram)

It hapens usually, when both cores are under heavy load (gcc 4.1.1 
compiling c++ apps (qt apps))

and I have this TP for cca 7 months.

K.P.