Comment 41 for bug 1600599

Doug I only meant that I have to run stress-ng and other tasks to get it that hot, regular web browsing/emails etc doesn't do it. But yes, thermal paste is definitely the #2 think after blowing out the fans. I may do that later but my main issue is solved by this update (though more logging in syslog would also really help people in the future).

Without thermald, stress-ng and another task can get it up to 98C even, though something in hardware is limiting me from getting it up higher and shutting down the machine (and processor frequency does go down slightly when I'm in that range... in fact I just noticed some entries in dmesg about processor speed and cpu clock throttled, but it's not coming from thermald!). I am happy with thermald doing what it needs to keep me from being in the danger zone as long as it gives me back normal performance when I'm not (which the new thermald is definitely doing and the old one was not, I've been doing a lot of checking). But other users may be just as happy with shutting it off if their BIOS and other hardware mechanisms prevent them from shutting down.

I do hope teo and/or someone else w/ a macbook can provide some debug logs or info about their fans (I think mine is just going to be controlled and I'm OK with that). I'll watch but I'm not going to post anymore. ;)