On 27.01.2014 16:47, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:13 PM, piruthiviraj natarajan < > piruthiviraj@xxxxxxxxx> 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. When I use Google plus the CPU usage reaches at least >> 40-60% and I assume javascript is making the system go crazy. This rarely >> happens in chrome though. I found this same behavior in other distros as >> well. Debian unstable, Gentoo, arch. I thought if I switched to some recent >> versions(stransky's copr packages)<http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/stransky/FirefoxGtk3/>of Firefox 29 would help but to no avail. Did anyone else notice this kind >> of thing on their systems? >> I think its specific to recent Intel core processors. >> my output of x86info is >> x86info -m >> x86info v1.30. Dave Jones 2001-2011 >> Feedback to <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>. >> >> Found 8 identical CPUs >> Extended Family: 0 Extended Model: 3 Family: 6 Model: 58 Stepping: 9 >> Type: 0 (Original OEM) >> CPU Model (x86info's best guess): Unknown model. >> Processor name string (BIOS programmed): Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ >> 2.40GHz >> >> Performance MSRs: >> MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS: 0x238c00002100 >> 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: 0x88190000 >> >> Total processor threads: 8 >> >> >> What does this software-controlled clock disabled (full speed) mean in >> this output? Can I manually enable it again so that system would not run >> hot like crazy? > > > I run fedora rawhide and I forgot to mention that. Not a "MSR_IA32_THERM_CONTROL" exclusively, however take a look if this can help, $ rpm -qil kernel-tools poma -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
