On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 09:16 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:55 +0300, Alon Levy wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:15:41AM -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote: > >>> Since moving to Fedora 16 my laptop has been constantly overheating. In > >>> fact with the tracker-store taking up so much CPU it creates a perfect > >>> storm and the system will sometimes shut itself off because of the high > >>> heat in the CPU. > >>> > >>>> From the logs: > >>> [ 2718.556684] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg temp > >>> 9497, limit 9000 > >>> [ 2778.415413] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg temp > >>> 9700, limit 9000 > >>> [ 2783.402899] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg temp > >>> 9049, limit 9000 > >>> > >> > >> Is the laptop actually warm? i.e. maybe it's a reporting error, the temperature > >> is actually ok but reported too high, which would explain why you don't see it > >> in windows? > > IMHO the overheating is the other symptom of debugging enabled in the > kernel. I don't think so in Erin's case; she explicitly identified Tracker as the component eating CPU time. But in normal circumstances debug overhead probably would raise system temperature a little in general, yeah, by reducing the amount of time the cores would spend idle. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
