Chromium causes overheating / fan to spin at 100% / X to crash

Hey all,
I have a Toshiba Portege R835 laptop and have been running Arch Linux on it for the past year.
Lately when running Chromium (happened within the latest few versions), the laptop heats up badly. I've tried measuring CPU and GPU usage, toggling different GPU acceleration features within Chromium, and testing on different types of web pages. Occasionally X will freeze completely, and I'm unable to even switch to a tty via CTRL+ALT+<num>, forcing me to do a cold reboot - when this occurs the fan will begin to spin at 100% and no obvious errors (Xorg.log, dmesg.log) are available after reboot.
This mainly occurs when browsing JavaScript-intensive pages (facebook, gmail) or viewing HTML5 videos. Firefox doesn't have this issue when viewing the same pages.
powertop/top/intel_gpu_top don't seem to suggest any irregularities in CPU (15% or less average across the cores, which isn't abnormal) or GPU usage; the only real difference that I notice is that wakeups when Chromium is open are increased (average is usually between 400-800 idle, whereas with a browser like Firefox and the same tabs open it is around 200-500 idle).
Additional information:
Plugins are only run on a "click to play" basis, so I doubt that flashplugin could be a cause.
I don't have this issue with other webkit-based browsers (midori).
DE is GNOME 3, but it's occured with xmonad before as well.
xf86-video-intel graphics driver, occurs with and without SNA enabled.
Stock up-to-date kernel, i915 parameters are all their default values, with and without KMS enabled during bootstrap
Thanks for any assistance!
Last edited by Whip (2012-08-10 21:53:43)

beepressure wrote:
ozar wrote:
My 9600GT and GTS250 cards do that as well and always have, but my GTX260 doesn't do it.
It's my understanding from the nVidia forums that this is normal behavior for each of these models. Not sure about your model, though.
It's really annoying because when i am done using my computer for the night, I quit X and logout. But I cannot sleep with this fan going 100%. I guess i will have to leave X running all the time.
Yup, I understand completely. When I first got the 9600GT, that was the first thing that I didn't like about it. Then the same happened with the 250GTS. Yes, it really is annoying.
It seems like I remember reading somewhere that a video bios/firmware uprade might stop that behavior, but not sure. It might be worth checking out, though.

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