Is there a way to reduce performance once a temperature threshold is reached

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My laptop (Toshiba Satellite L655 - 1e8) overheats (and shuts down). Often. I was wondering if there is a way to reduce performance once the temperature reaches a certain threshold.

Thanks!

P.S. I'm not doing anything very resource-intensive... It sometimes overheats while just watching a flash video on chromium. Anything more and its practically guaranteed to happen after a while. I did clean the fan, but perhaps not well enough.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '13 at 02:55

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The hardware is supposed to do this if it absolutely must, and is really not supposed to overheat in the first place. If it does then it is defective and you should complain to the manufacturer and return it for a refund if you still can.

answered Dec 14 '13 at 02:55

psusi

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Its not new, so I can't do that... I just want to use the one I have without worrying about it shutting down unexpectedly – NBcode Dec 14 '13 at 03:42
@NBcode, you might try manually lowering your cpu frequency: http://askubuntu.com/a/37997/8500 – psusi Dec 14 '13 at 18:01
On SUSE I could adjust something in /proc to slow down the clock. But on ubuntu, I can't find it. Sooo, I know this can be done! I have the same problem. (thats why I am here...) – jim Jan 09 '14 at 01:28
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@jim, see my previous comment... – psusi Jan 09 '14 at 01:46

Is there a way to reduce performance once a temperature threshold is reached

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