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  1. Bug #213818
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Comment 23 for bug 213818

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) wrote :

I'm having the exact same problems on my ThinkPad X61. I'm away from the computer every time it happens, and when I come back it's shut down. I check the logs and they mention critical temperature levels:

Aug 22 15:38:35 FarPad kernel: [ 2839.632044] ACPI: Critical trip point
Aug 22 15:38:35 FarPad kernel: [ 2839.632057] Critical temperature reached (128 C), shutting down.

The wierd thing is that I haven't been able to reproduce this with stress yet. I have never been able to observe that it reaches those temperature levels while I've been sitting by the computer. Might be some process which starts when I'm away...

It now idles on 52C, but usually idles at around 62C and often gets uncomfortably hot. My fan never reaches more than 3900RPM - is that actually the maximum temperature? Also, polling is disabled in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/polling_frequency

Could any of the devs please respond to this?