My 10-year-old ThinkPad X201 was running very hot (80+ degC). After re-applying the CPU thermal paste and cleaning the fan it now runs much cooler (47-53 degC in normal use), but still ca 10-12 degrees hotter than under debian, which I ran just to compare (btw envstat(4) doesn't show the fan speed).
I enabled estd(1) (w/o much tweaking), but that didn't seem to make any difference. I'm aware this is a known issue, but am unsure of why/how Linux seems to manage this better. Is there something I could contribute to a potential fix? $ uname -v NetBSD 9.2_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Sep 23 10:13:28 UTC 2021 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC Thanks, Pouya
