Francesco Montanari wrote: > I recently installed Jessie on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The fan usage looks > reasonable. However, high temperatures (96 C) are reached when CPUs are > running intensively for more than one minute or so. The fan speed at those > temperatures is about 4500 rpm. > > Do you think it is ok, or do you suggest to force lower temperatures, > e.g.,with thinkfan [1]?
Absolutely. 95C is pushing the thermal thresholds of CPU dies (IIRC, 100C is the burnout temp on most). Clean your heatsink too. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O|