linux Linux: temperature control.

[Wanderingturtle]

Hello everyone!

 

So I decided to give Linux a try and it seems that I am getting a hang of it ( Using terminal makes me feel like a badar**). However the temperature of my laptops just sky rocketed from about 40 - 50 degrees to 70 degrees. Is there away to keep it under control or any application I can use?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

Laptop specs:

Hp - AMD Ryzen 3 3200U with Radeon Vega 3 Graphics

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Was your fan control set in the bios or os when you were using windows?

 

Which distro of linux are you running?

 

What is your kernel version? uname -r 

[Wild Penquin]

What temperatures are you getting in Windows in similar stress?

 

After a quick google search, 70°C might be something not to worry about (if that is the CPU temperature). However if it seems higher than in Windows and your fans are slow / near-idle, then it might have something to do with fan control not enabled, as TheFlyingSquirrel suggests. The fan control might still be enabled but different on Linux than on Windows, or power saving settings are not as aggressive on Linux as they are on Windows.

 

Bottom line: if fans are still ramping up when the computer is under stress, you are probably fine. Try some (short) stress test, to see if temperatures go to dangerous levels. If they stay normal and fans increase RPM, you are probably fine (it's just differences of PM or some S/W fan control between the OSes).

 

 

[Wanderingturtle]

6 hours ago, TheFlyingSquirrel said:

Was your fan control set in the bios or os when you were using windows?

 

Which distro of linux are you running?

 

What is your kernel version? uname -r 

The only thing that I've change in the bios is "secure boot " that's all.

My current distro is Mint 19 and kernel version is 5.5.5-32-generic.

 

I will check my bios again to see what I can do.

Thank you.

[Wanderingturtle]

2 hours ago, Wild Penquin said:

What temperatures are you getting in Windows in similar stress?

 

After a quick google search, 70°C might be something not to worry about (if that is the CPU temperature). However if it seems higher than in Windows and your fans are slow / near-idle, then it might have something to do with fan control not enabled, as TheFlyingSquirrel suggests. The fan control might still be enabled but different on Linux than on Windows, or power saving settings are not as aggressive on Linux as they are on Windows.

 

Bottom line: if fans are still ramping up when the computer is under stress, you are probably fine. Try some (short) stress test, to see if temperatures go to dangerous levels. If they stay normal and fans increase RPM, you are probably fine (it's just differences of PM or some S/W fan control between the OSes).

 

 

I haven't stress test this laptop in windows yet. As for the fan speed, I installed LM-sensors and the result for the fan is " 0 rpm " which is really odd.

I'll give stress ago and see what happens and I'll go through my Bios again as TheFlyingSquirrel suggested.

 

Thank you! have a nice day.

[Wild Penquin]

2 hours ago, Wanderingturtle said:

I haven't stress test this laptop in windows yet. As for the fan speed, I installed LM-sensors and the result for the fan is " 0 rpm " which is really odd.

That is not odd at all. Most manufacturers don't want users to read their sensors - especially laptops. Lm-sensors typically can not read your fan speeds correctly OOTB.

 

What I meant by "fans ramping up" is just to audibly listen to what they do.

[Wanderingturtle]

Latest update.

After going through Bios setting  I wasn't able to adjust my fan speed, however I decided to install TLP And able to lower the temperature to around 60 degrees. Yes the fans ramp up a bit but that's fine by me.

 

Thank you for taking your time to answer my question.

Wild penquin, The flying squirrel.