> The root cause of the heating, is bad physical heatflow design in general > (My fans are already on max usually in these cases). I've taken some > measures for cooling though occasionally temperature levels still peak. You may want to look into a laptop cooler. > I can understand if the CPU scales down as an emergency measure (and is > quite likely the case). My problem is that it doesn't scale back up when > the temperature comes back to normal (~60 degC). Infact I've also suspended > the laptop, left it for an hour to come down to room temperature and on > resuming the scaled down levels persist. Although I'm not able to find a > way to check that it is indeed scaled down, just simply the performance > drops Powertop may be of use, I'm not sure. Again, I suspect that it is a hardware failsafe mechanism, so there's probably nothing you can do about it. Your only option is to prevent the CPU from hitting 95 degC. --Sean
