Sometimes my CPU temperature goes to 90 C although the qubes OS has not much to do. If shutting down the responsible domain the temperature goes down again. The same if I pause the domain. After a while I found out that it only happens if not the first firefox browser tab is activated. In other words, if I make sure that always the first firefox tab is activated (and not the 2nd, 3rd …)before switching to another domain then I don’t run into temperature issues, but if I forget the machine is getting pretty hot. I tried it dozens of times in the meantime and always the same. Anyone having similar issues or is this a known bahavior or bug?
No, this is weird, poissbly one of your firefox addons going havoc.
But anyway 90 C under load indicates that your heat pipe either requires cleaning or some new cooling lotion.
Most CPUs shut down at 95 C to avoid permanent damage.
I think the X270 has a Skylake with Intel HWP. This is a non-trivial fix and might not even work, but you could try installing R4.1 and then building the experimental HWP patches. They made a huge improvement for me in thermal management with my i5-8365U.
I’m also having this problem with high temperature on my X270, always above 60°C and reaching 90°C during startup and playing video. I have not seen the same high temperature values when booting into CentOS Stream 8 and heatsink is clean. I’m using Qubes 4.1 installed after its release (kernel 5.10.90 and Xen 4.14.3). Processor is a i5-7300u Kaby Lake, so it supports HWP.
Just wanted to check if this patch has evolved into a package to make it easier to test if HWP would allow operating at lower temperatures.
Thank you for the suggestion. I added the intel i915 driver for the xorg.conf.d according to the following post and it seems that the temperature is not as high as before.