Laptop is getting hot after resume from suspend

[Gary Waters]

On 12/07/2012 10:02 AM, Christian Menzel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while my Thinpad X220 normally shows 50 to 60  degrees Celsius, when
> running on normal load, it gets hot to 90 to 96 degrees Celsius after
> resume from suspend, although top does not show any CPU eating processes.
> I think I experience this behavior since switching to kernel 3.6.x.
>
> Does this happen on other machines too? Is there a cure for it?
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
>

Have you clean outed / dusted out the heatsink/cooling fan? Once dust 
accumulates in there, overheating ensues..