It's Bubbling Hot
$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature temperature: 84 C temperature: 90 C
Maybe it's time to get a dedicated build machine, my poor laptop gets quite toasty when building Poky. Then again it seems happy enough, so maybe I should just use an external keyboard to avoid boiling my hands.
NP: Oneric, Boxcutter
Posted by knipknap at Thu Apr 24 18:35:37 2008:
Posted by Henri at Thu Apr 24 18:46:15 2008:
You have an x60, no? I have the same problem on mine, bootstrapping Emacs puts me at around 75 degrees C. BTW, acpi -t is easier than catting files in proc.
Posted by Diego Escalante Urrelo at Thu Apr 24 20:09:36 2008:
Check http://computertemp.berlios.de/ for monitoring the temp, it's quite nice.
My r50e is usually at 45C on on-demand (being 600mhz the lowest, 1.5Ghz the highest), but above 1.20 it starts to catch fire, it usually gets to 90C when I'm building something, but the fans manage to keep it at 80 or 75 after one or two minutes. Still I always fear that I will melt down my cpu.
Cleaning the fan is a good idea btw, mine almost didn't sound some weeks ago, I cleaned it and it started to actually blow air again. You'll need to remove the keyboard though, that's on ibm website, mine even had a video.
Posted by Adam Williamson at Fri Apr 25 11:13:16 2008:
My r50e is usually at 45C on on-demand (being 600mhz the lowest, 1.5Ghz the highest), but above 1.20 it starts to catch fire, it usually gets to 90C when I'm building something, but the fans manage to keep it at 80 or 75 after one or two minutes. Still I always fear that I will melt down my cpu.
Cleaning the fan is a good idea btw, mine almost didn't sound some weeks ago, I cleaned it and it started to actually blow air again. You'll need to remove the keyboard though, that's on ibm website, mine even had a video.
Just get a laptop cooler. I have a Lenovo 3000 V100. It hits 100 C and auto shuts down after about three minutes at full load, usually. As you found, very annoying for building stuff.
I cleaned out the fan and got a cheapo USB cooler pad ($18 or something). It's just two fans in a big lump of plastic with a USB cord for power. Cheap and simple, but works very well. Now I barely break 70 even compiling WebKit or something. Much cheaper than a build machine.
Any PC store should sell 'em.
Posted by SmSpillaz at Fri Apr 25 15:51:40 2008:
I cleaned out the fan and got a cheapo USB cooler pad ($18 or something). It's just two fans in a big lump of plastic with a USB cord for power. Cheap and simple, but works very well. Now I barely break 70 even compiling WebKit or something. Much cheaper than a build machine.
Any PC store should sell 'em.
Definitely a sign that you need a new laptop.
I am assuming that you are using a Pentium-M era laptop correct? I am becoming more and more convinced that the heating systems on all these laptops are starting to degrade fast. I have an Acer Aspire 3420 and have this exact problem. I'm idling at around 67C, get up to about 96C when building something. Visiting any web page with flash kills it fast, moreso with compiz enabled.
I have recently bought a Dell XPS m1530 with a C2D. From what I have seen and heard, the C2D is certainly a longer-lasting and less toasty chip than the PM.
Hope that helps :D
Posted by Ross at Tue Apr 29 10:04:15 2008:
I am assuming that you are using a Pentium-M era laptop correct? I am becoming more and more convinced that the heating systems on all these laptops are starting to degrade fast. I have an Acer Aspire 3420 and have this exact problem. I'm idling at around 67C, get up to about 96C when building something. Visiting any web page with flash kills it fast, moreso with compiz enabled.
I have recently bought a Dell XPS m1530 with a C2D. From what I have seen and heard, the C2D is certainly a longer-lasting and less toasty chip than the PM.
Hope that helps :D
