Laptop overheating with F 16

[Alon Levy]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> Since moving to Fedora 16 my laptop has been constantly overheating. In
> fact with the tracker-store taking up so much CPU it creates a perfect
> storm and the system will sometimes shut itself off because of the high
> heat in the CPU.
> 
> >From the logs:
> [ 2718.556684] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg temp
> 9497, limit 9000
> [ 2778.415413] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg temp
> 9700, limit 9000
> [ 2783.402899] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg temp
> 9049, limit 9000
> 

Is the laptop actually warm? i.e. maybe it's a reporting error, the temperature
is actually ok but reported too high, which would explain why you don't see it
in windows?

[snip]
> Thanks,
> -Erinn
>  
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