Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Jim Clark wrote: > Hate to state the obvious, because it was my problem. Dropped my > laptop from 75C to 50C... cleaning the hairball out of my heatsink. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM, daniel robinson wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2010 7:05 AM, "Dimitrios Apostolou" wrote: >> >> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010,

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-06 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Marti Raudsepp wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Timer Stats Version: v0.2 Sample period: 0.000 s 0 total events Huh? Something's broken with your /proc/timer_stats. Either that, or some application is polling the file at an insane rate. We

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-06 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Timer Stats Version: v0.2 > Sample period: 0.000 s > 0 total events Huh? Something's broken with your /proc/timer_stats. Either that, or some application is polling the file at an insane rate. Were you running powertop in the background

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-06 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Marti Raudsepp wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Using powertop I can see more than 100K wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first on the list but I think it's irrelevant since it only shows about 100 wakeups), and the CPU is not going into

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-06 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Using powertop I can see more than 100K wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt > is first on the list but I think it's irrelevant since it only shows about > 100 wakeups), and the CPU is not going into C2 mode at all. Strangely > however the

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-05 Thread Jim Clark
Hate to state the obvious, because it was my problem. Dropped my laptop from 75C to 50C... cleaning the hairball out of my heatsink. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM, daniel robinson wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010 7:05 AM, "Dimitrios Apostolou" wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-05 Thread daniel robinson
On Jan 5, 2010 7:05 AM, "Dimitrios Apostolou" wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > Do you run acpi-cpufreq? No I don't. In fact I don't think the CPU is able to lower its frequency. Dimitris

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-05 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: Do you run acpi-cpufreq? No I don't. In fact I don't think the CPU is able to lower its frequency. Dimitris

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-05 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Hello, pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-04 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 04.01.2010 22:07, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello, > > pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A > strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is > idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K > wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is

[arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-04 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hello, pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first on the list but I think it's irrelevant since it