X60 overheating with 7.1

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:19 -0500, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 12:13 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> > On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:06 , Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:
> > 
> > >>
> > > That thread forked and re-forked a few times under the different
> > > subjects...
> > >
> > > Did you try setting
> > >
> > > hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1
> > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz1._PSV=75C
> > >
> > > in /etc/sysctl.conf?
> > >
> > Yes, that is now set and it keeps the machine from overheating BUT
> > the machine bounces around alot when doing any real work, like a build.
> > So the heat gets up to 80 then the CPU goes down to 125, then the heat  
> > comes
> > down etc.
> I guess, we are down to expectations management here ;) I do no expect
> 1.83 GHz dualcore CPU, 3GB of RAM and 160GB of 5400RPM disk to be able
> to run at the top performance within 4 lbs package for any protracted
> period of time. I am quite happy with it doing -STABLE buildword under
> hour-and-a-half and re-encoding DVD movies at ~250fps. Or building
> OpenOffice.org under two days ;)
> 
> > > If not, we can start by comparing machines and configurations. Mine is
> > > X60 (1709-something) with 1.83GHz "Core Not-2 Duo" which is 32-bit
> > > machine and I am running i386 version of -STABLE on it. I seem to  
> > > recall
> > > that there are 64-bit capable X60 models out there as well and someone
> > > was running amd64 flavor on it. What's yours?
> > >
> > 
> > I am running i386 as well and I think our machines are identical.  
> Judging by "2000/Something" you have mentioned below, I suspect not.
> 
> > I have tried powerd but, at least emprically, it seemed to cause
> > the bouncing heat/CPU speed issue to be worse, that is, higher peaks  
> > and troughs.
> Just out of curiosity -- what are you using to visualize this? I was
> tempted a few times to put something together, but never really sat down
> to do it.
> 
> > It NEVER gets down to 40 except when I turn it on.  At idle the tz0  
> > and tz1 are
> > 60 and 62 respectively.
> I shall turn off powerd and Cx levels later today and see what I get
> than.
After sitting idle at 1.83GHz and C1 for 5 minutes after boot it did not
move off 43 and 45 respectively. Fan was turning on and off, though.

Few things I should have mentioned, which might or might not be related:
-- I set hw.pci.do_power_nodriver to "3"
-- I do not build USB into the kernel and I do not load USB modules by
default

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)