hello there fellows.
I have a IBM T43 Thinkpad Laptop with Slackware 14.1 installed on it, and recently i've been having some over heatin issues, specially while building packages withe the sbopkg command.
on shell, i recieve the following message:
"core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled"
or somethin' of the likes.
i'm not really sure what it could be, but has never happened with other distros. i've had debian, arch and puppy runnin on it clean and sassy.
though i'm not new to linux and have been using it for awhile for my everyday tasks, i sure am a "noob" in most matters and would gladly appreciate your help.
thank you very much

building packages use 100% cpu , usually, and systems becomes warm.

check if there is dust in the cooler, T43 is pretty old and therefor possible pretty dusty inside

but it is normal to be THAT hot?
I mean, getting the warning and all.
yes, i thought about a hardware problem such as the one you mention, but wanted to rule out any chance of it being software-related. To this, I add up my experience that, with this laptop, i've had other distros installed an running without this issue.

you computer hardware should be able to deal with 100% CPU load for some time.
Slackware can not take more than 100% cpu while building packages.
building packages is 100% CPU, that is correct and good.


if the heat problem occours when doing nothing special, than its a configuration issue,
in this case you might want to check if you have the right cpu governor loaded

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ottling-617741

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...quency_scaling

https://www.linux.com/community/blog...butions/279657

this should give you enough info and keywords for additional (re)search

PLease provide some more info, especially which CPU and which video-chip (if any) you are using, which kernel/drivers are used and how your power-management is configured.

hello,
it is a Intel Pentium M, it's one of the centrino laptops.
i don't know which Pentium M in particular, but i'll look it up.
the kernel that i'm using is the "huge" kernel that came with the slackware installation.

Oh i'm sorry, it's the 3.10 kernel.
and thanks a4z, i'll look those threads up

Hi,
You might usefully look at the fan ... is it working at full speed?

I have had to replace fans on various thinkpads ... t43, t60, t61 ... as they get old and tired.

It is not difficult .. just fiddly and you will need the Hardware maintenance and Reference manual

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/docs/MIGR-58791

cheers
pete