[SOLVED] Question about CPU temperature

Hi everybody,
I just want to ask a question about "standard" CPU temperatures because my laptop (a Dell Vostro 3700) is permanently hot with the fans on even when I am not doing anything special.
I have CPU freq scaling active with the conservative governor, and I use Gnome Shell 3.2 with an nVidia using the nouveau driver.
Here are "stable" temperatures while writing this post:
# sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +72.5°C (crit = +103.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +78.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +73.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +73.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
And this is the output of mpstat
# mpstat -P ALL
Linux 3.1.6-1-ARCH (fm) 01/04/2012 _x86_64_ (4 CPU)
10:16:50 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
10:16:50 PM all 1.59 0.18 0.54 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 97.65
10:16:50 PM 0 1.88 0.15 0.72 0.02 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 97.22
10:16:50 PM 1 1.64 0.21 0.40 0.02 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 97.73
10:16:50 PM 2 1.47 0.15 0.67 0.02 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 97.64
10:16:50 PM 3 1.36 0.20 0.39 0.02 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 98.01
The fan, of course, is full speed (very annoying)
I think that these temperatures are quite high, but I don't know what's really causing all this heating because my laptop is basically idle.
Any suggestion?
Thanks.
P.S.: Running Linux fm 3.1.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 22 09:11:48 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Last edited by fm (2012-01-06 09:32:01)

samuvuo wrote:
fm wrote:Just to wrap up this topic, I "solved" the issue by adding these parameters to the kernel:
Just curious: what are the temperatures now? Sensors output after the "fix" would be nice.
It's in the previous posts:
Before (idle)
# sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +72.5°C (crit = +103.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +78.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +73.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +73.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
After (idle)
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +63.5°C (crit = +103.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +68.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +62.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +64.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
After (after playing 8 min youtube video)
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +74.5°C (crit = +103.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +78.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +73.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2: +75.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Fan spinning is better (less noisy) after specifying the kernel parameters.
Thanks
Last edited by fm (2012-01-06 13:43:05)

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