CPU temperature Thinkpad R61

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Oct 17 23:52:26 UTC 2009


Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 14:31 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist:
> On 10/17/2009 09:50 AM, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > Today I used a compressor to clean up my cooler. That did not help alot.
> > (There wasn't much dust inside). My cpu temp still goes up from 40° to
> > 47° in ~ 2 minutes which causes the fan to start.
> >
> > Since the cpu has basically nothing to do and the cooler is clean, I am
> > wondering if this could be some gfx related issue. Is there some known
> > GPU load on a GM965/GL960 intel chip with KMS being enabled?
> > Or may this be related to my (ageing) battery being plugged in?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> 
> 
> Install and run powertop
> It shows which program/driver/etc causes a lot of CPU wakeups.

Yeah. Powertop _is_ usefull. But I suspect the GPU is the temperature
cause here. So how would I measure that? (I do not have sensefull GPU
temperature sensors available, it's always -128°)
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