On Mon 2013-09-23 09:02:56, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > I have rather old thinkpad x60 here. Long time ago, I noticed that on > > > high continuous ethernet load, it shuts itself down in regular > > > way. I traced it down to overheat, followed by ACPI signaling system > > > to go down. > > > > just to wrap the story up... after fixing pcie aspm problems, > > ethernet apparently stopped overheating. > > And that means a new kernel with fixed ASPM handling, or disabling ASPM > entirely, or what? That means single-line forcing ASPM to be disabled, even through linux is normally not able to disable ASPM when it is not supported by the BIOS. Someone at Intel knows about the problem, hopefully they will present some better solution... > Good to know it can be handled by a software fix, though! Yes :-). [I wonder if it happens on other X60 machines, too?] Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
