Laptop overheating with F 16

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 09:16 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:55 +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> >> 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?
> 
> IMHO the overheating is the other symptom of debugging enabled in the 
> kernel. 

I don't think so in Erin's case; she explicitly identified Tracker as
the component eating CPU time. But in normal circumstances debug
overhead probably would raise system temperature a little in general,
yeah, by reducing the amount of time the cores would spend idle.
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