On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 21:13 +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
> > Recently for the past couple of months I have been noticing that when
> > I start firefox my system fans go mad and CPU temp rises significantly
> > by at least 5Celcius.
>
> I've noticed this too. I haven't yet understood why it happens. I'll
> keep an eye out for FF. Here's what I have:
>
> [asinha@ankur-laptop  ~]$ sudo x86info -m
> x86info v1.30.  Dave Jones 2001-2011
> Feedback to <[email protected]>.
>
> Found 4 identical CPUs
> Extended Family: 0 Extended Model: 2 Family: 6 Model: 37 Stepping: 5
> Type: 0 (Original OEM)
> CPU Model (x86info's best guess): Core i7 (Nehalem)
> [Clarkdale/Arrandale]
> Processor name string (BIOS programmed): Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU
> M 560  @ 2.67GHz
>
> Performance MSRs:
>   MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS: 0x15
>   MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE: 0x850089 [Enabled: TCC PerfMon EnhancedSpeedStep
> ]
>
> Thermal MSRs:
>   MSR_PM_THERM2_CTL: 0x0 [Thermal monitor: 1]
>   MSR_IA32_THERM_CONTROL: 0x0 [Software-controlled clock disabled (full
> speed)]
>   MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS: 0x88240000
>
> Total processor threads: 4
> This system has 1 dual-core processor with hyper-threading (2 threads
> per core) running at an estimated 2.65GHz
> --


Did anyone try this for power saving?

http://thunderbirdtrr.blogspot.in/2013/06/fedora-power-tweak-suggestion-for-intel.html#.UayL8XzwmV5
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