Hi,
After installing Tumbleweed on a laptop with a Broadwell CPU, merely opening Chrome with tens of tabs used to make the CPU overheat (mcelog logging thermal events). A week ago I activated thermald, which prevents the CPU from overheating; since then, the fan is more quiet and no overheating occurs, no matter how much I stress the CPU.
Why isn't thermald installed and enabled by default?
On Tuesday 2017-01-10 22:24, auxsvr wrote:
Hi,
After installing Tumbleweed on a laptop with a Broadwell CPU, merely opening Chrome with tens of tabs used to make the CPU overheat (mcelog logging thermal events). A week ago I activated thermald, which prevents the CPU from overheating; since then, the fan is more quiet and no overheating occurs, no matter how much I stress the CPU.
Why isn't thermald installed and enabled by default?
Because under normal circumstances, this is a job the kernel should be doing, not some bolt-on userspace program. (The Mac G4/G5 also needed software assistance of that kind, so Broadwell is not in any way new.)
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Jan Engelhardt