Kernels and Overheating

[AndrzejL]

Have we in PCLinuxOS the same problem about this?

Not sure if exactly this problem but all my machines were always running a little hot under PCLinuxOS. Since I moved to another distro temperature on my laptops droped minimum 15 celsius. On old Thinkpad temperature dropped from 70 celsius when idle to 35 when idle on Acer from 65 to 45 - 48 (I was quite surprized as it was usualy getting very hot and I had to give it a rest before I could play games or something as it was to hot to place my hands below the keyboard) and on Dell from 46 to 28 - 31... My fourth laptop that works as a server now is clocked to run with 600 mhz cpu (that's almost half of what it can do) using the cpufreq powersave governor - and it's the hottest machine in the house - 54 celsius in idle state. I am not willing to redo this machine with other distro just yet but if I will I will let you know if and how much did the temperature dropped if this topic survives.

Regards.

Andrzej

[Aleph]

I am not willing to redo this machine with other distro just yet but if I will I will let you know if and how much did the temperature dropped if this topic survives.

Hi AndrzejL,

I would be interested in.

Thanks.

[Aleph]

Yes AndrzejL, I have installed Crunchbang on the same laptod, the stable kernel, without "tunning" it.

The temperatures at Crunchbang are a bit more cold:

fan1:       2540 RPM
temp1:       +46.0°C                                    
temp2:       +40.0°C                                    
temp3:       +33.0°C                                    
temp4:       +52.0°C                                    
temp5:       +34.0°C  


PCLinuxOS was:

temp 1 52ºC
temp 2 54ºC
temp 3 31ºC
temp 4 55ºC
temp 5 17ºC

[Aleph]

Sorry, now I am not very sure...

Today I repeated the test with both distros idle and the results were very similar, around 50ºC