hello. Im new to opensuse, ive installed it today. It’s pretty nice, the only issue i’ve found is the following.
the temperature of my cpu is around 60 degrees and it is much higher than on my previous Ubuntu box. I can feel it under my hand while i type, it’s HOT.
The fan is working i think, because i can hear it changing speed with respect to the load. Morover, it is always on.
I have an Asus F3SA laptop.
Ideas?
Thank you
i think i know the problem, but not the solution
even if my CPUs speed throttling capabilities are correctly detected by the kernel
dmesg | grep CPU
...
1.160832] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
1.163078] ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
1.163097] processor LNXCPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
1.163101] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
and by acpi
/proc/acpi/processor/throttling
state count: 8
active state: T0
state available: T0 to T7
states:
*T0: 100%
T1: 87%
T2: 75%
T3: 62%
T4: 50%
T5: 37%
T6: 25%
T7: 12%
it seems that it throttles nothing, the state is always T0 even with very low load.
Does anyone know why?
On 12/02/2009 09:26 AM, Naftalina wrote:
>
> i think i know the problem, but not the solution
>
> even if my CPUs speed throttling capabilities are correctly detected by
> the kernel
>
> dmesg | grep CPU
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> …
> 1.160832] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
> 1.163078] ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
> 1.163097] processor LNXCPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
> 1.163101] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
> --------------------
>
>
> and by acpi
>
> /proc/acpi/processor/throttling
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> state count: 8
> active state: T0
> state available: T0 to T7
> states:
> *T0: 100%
> T1: 87%
> T2: 75%
> T3: 62%
> T4: 50%
> T5: 37%
> T6: 25%
> T7: 12%
> --------------------
>
>
> it seems that it throttles nothing, the state is always T0 even with
> very low load.
How do you know you have very little load? Open a terminal and enter
the command ‘top’. Any processes using a lot of CPU?
I know because i have a system monitor applet in my panel. But here is the top output
top - 18:15:34 up 2:20, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.18, 0.06
Tasks: 167 total, 2 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.9%us, 3.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%
Mem: 2071124k total, 1303656k used, 767468k free, 104200k buffers
Swap: 1004020k total, 0k used, 1004020k free, 758160k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1521 root 20 0 600m 46m 14m S 7 2.3 9:26.62 Xorg
12599 davide 20 0 362m 85m 24m S 6 4.2 1:45.34 firefox
13052 davide 20 0 71584 18m 9920 R 3 0.9 0:13.11 npviewer.bin
2800 davide 20 0 92844 21m 16m S 1 1.1 0:31.63 gnome-panel
14394 davide 20 0 84296 12m 9644 S 1 0.6 0:00.18 gnome-terminal
2801 davide 20 0 120m 27m 21m S 1 1.4 0:11.83 nautilus
8999 davide 20 0 275m 79m 25m S 1 3.9 3:33.77 banshee-1
2832 davide 20 0 86504 16m 12m S 1 0.8 0:09.30 main-menu
3249 davide 20 0 104m 27m 17m S 1 1.4 0:18.45 pidgin
14396 davide 20 0 2352 1036 768 R 1 0.1 0:00.09 top
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.29 ksoftirqd/0
2830 davide 20 0 27924 11m 9916 S 0 0.6 0:07.92 multiload-apple
9152 davide 20 0 756m 130m 15m S 0 6.4 4:19.11 java
1 root 20 0 1940 656 572 S 0 0.0 0:00.96 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
Can you give the output of
cat /proc/cpuinfo