I think I know why my computer is running like treacle with the latestUbuntu installed

[Kurt Wall]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James McDonald" <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:36 PM
Subject: I think I know why my computer is running like treacle with the 
latestUbuntu installed


> Seems as if the new kernel's have CPU frequency scaling happining and it's 
> 35+ C here.
>
> Maybe the slowness is due to temperature problems:
>
>
> Nov 19 13:34:50 blackbox kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu 
> clock throttled (total events = 68401)
> Nov 19 13:34:50 blackbox kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu 
> clock throttled (total events = 68399)
> Nov 19 13:34:51 blackbox kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
> Nov 19 13:34:51 blackbox kernel: CPU1: Temperature/speed normal


Or perhaps you simply need to change the threshhold temp?