Thinkpad T61 - Fan running a lot of time

From: Renato S. Yamane
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 16:51:19 EST


Hi,

Anyone have seen fan turned-on in 90% of the time?

I see that fan power-on when processor is up than 45°C and power-off when is under 45°C.

Temperature difference between 2 cores is 5°C in idle (Core1=45°C and Core2=40°C)

Local temperature is ~25°C, kpowersave is in "dynamic mode", my 2 cores (Intel T7500) is running 94% of the time in idle (checked with "top"), with clock in 800MHz.

The fan speed is ~2600RPM (always under 3000RPM), and I think that is not enough to cooling the processor, because is necessary 3min to decrease 1°C in Core1 and only 40sec to increase 1°C.

I think that is necessary a higher fan speed.

I see this in Debian Lenny (2.6.26-1) and 2.6.28.8 kernel... Maybe in other versions too.

Regards,
Renato
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