On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 02:21:00PM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: > Some modern systems have very tight thermal tolerances. Because of this > they may cross thermal thresholds when running normal workloads (even > during boot). The CPU hardware will react by limiting power/frequency > and using duty cycles to bring the temperature back into normal range. > > Thus users may see a "critical" message about the "temperature above > threshold" which is soon followed by "temperature/speed normal". These > messages are rate limited, but still may repeat every few minutes. > > The solution here is to set a timeout when the temperature first exceeds > the threshold.
Why can we even reach critical thresholds when the fans are working? I always thought it was BAD to ever reach the critical temps and have the hardware throttle.