Thank you Andrew and Andrey. > The cpupower utility can be used to set minimum and maximum cpu > frequencies and frequency scaling governor. I use it on my intel and amd > laptops. With some governor you can't set frequencies, try to change them. > I hope this helps. > Yes, this helped - laptop was cooler when I used the "powersave" governor and it was OK that the build took longer since I wanted to do other things at the same time.
> > >> echo 25 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct >> >> this sets max frequency to 800 mhz instead of 2.5/3.0 ghz as usual. >> >> note that 25 is percentage, and on different core iXXX processors results >> can be different. >> ... >> I hope this might help Phyllis with her overheating intel laptop ..... >> >> Yes, this motivated me to find a solution. I had to use cpupower utility because it was an AMD laptop instead of intel.
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