Re: amd64 system powering down

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:40:48AM +0200, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> Maybee what I see on my Thinkpad T43p is something similar: Since a week
> (or so) after some minutes of usage (running GENERIC) the thing becomes
> more and more unresponsive, warms up (fan becomes noisy) and eventually
> powers down.

I have caught my laptop spinning its fan when 100% idle recently - I don't
think its the incredibly hot weather we are having :-) cf 2 stoppages
during Wimbledon final - is more work being done during the idle loop
these days?

Cheers,

Patrick