Comment 25 for bug 1600599

I can't always get my load temp up to 97C, sometimes it takes a lot of work. ;) I'll also go back into my BIOS and set it back to some better defaults, I had disabled things like Enhanced SpeedStep while I was troubleshooting these issues. I'm not sure if I saw whatever intel_rapl uses in there but I'll look closely.

If you're running so close to a critical temperature like that, I think you're justified in doing whatever you can to get it back down. It's not that I think is the problem, it's more:

1 - the original bug reporter (and I apologize if I hijacked his bug reporter!) wanted his fan to be used first and foremost to bring temp down, as opposed to idle injection, and only do freq stepping and then idle injection if you had to (if fan's couldn't handle it); I think he may need to send some thermald debug logs for you for that though

2 - once the CPU is cool thermald was not bringing my performance back up to max speed, and it took me a while to figure out this was thermald's fault; better logging of what is going on in syslog would help here as well as figuring out why it didn't increase my performance again even though CPU was cool