A post-mortem on the heat issues

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 16:12 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> Just in case anyone is interested. It was very much a hardware issue
> that was leading to the system experiencing thermal issues, just so
> happens that upon upgrading the Fedora 16 I was paying a lot closer
> attention to the logs and noticed it. Not sure why I wasn't able to
> reproduce it as easily in Windows or in Fedora 15, perhaps all the
> debugging in Fedora 16 has something to do with that, I imagine it
> generates a bit more load.
> 
> Now for the funny part, well to me at least, the fan on this ThinkPad
> was replaced 3 months or so ago, the tech who put it in forgot to remove
> the slip of paper covering the heat sink/thermal grease so effectivley
> heat was being pushed from the processor through thermal grease, into a
> paper layer and then back into thermal grease and on to the heat sink. I
> suppose it is really luck that little piece of paper didn't catch fire.
> 
> Thanks again for the help and the patience, I now know how to control
> the fan on my system via proc, as well as gather temperatures, and
> create arbitrary loads to test it all out. All good things to learn I
> suppose.

No problem, glad it got figured out in the end!
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