I have a lenovo w530 laptop with an intel i7-3720QM processor, and when running something with high cpu use causes the cpu to be put into the highest turbo mode and stays there as long as the core is being used. It doesn't scale back to the real max frequency once temperatures rise.
I've had my laptop shut itself down after a few minutes due to a thermal warning a few times. I was attempting to try the latest stable stock (non debian) kernel to see if maybe it was a weird distro config issue (it happens), but as I was compiling the kernel, CPU temps hit 90c, and were climbing after only a few minutes. If I had let it go longer, I am 100% sure it would have shut itself off again. I just tried seeing what would happen if I just ran a straight up make on the kernel with no -j option. So only one core at a time would be pegged, and it caused all 4 cores to spike to 3.4Ghz+ and stay there till I killed the job. Is this a known problem? Is there something obvious I've missed? I've been trying to find relevant info online about this, but a lot of it is fairly old and references the intel_pstep driver causing tubo to be stuck on 100% of the time. In my case its only stuck at full turbo while there is a certain amount of cpu use. It does drop back if nothing is running. Currently running kernel is the debian 3.13.7-1 kernel from sid. I will attempt to try the stock latest stable, as well as the latest rc, but I won't be able to get around to both till tomorrow. Thanks. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tho...@fjellstrom.ca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
