"mcp power or thermal limit exceeded" excessive in messages.log

Posted by Stefan Thyberg on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Stefan Thyberg
Published on 2010-10-26T08:01:38Z Indexed on 2011/02/28 7:32 UTC
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I keep getting "mcp power or thermal limit exceeded" every five seconds while my computer is on, regardless of what it's doing. I googled it and found some Intel patches but I don't really know exactly what they do or how to apply them and I also don't want to patch my kernel with these random bits of code from some newsgroup.

Can anyone shed some light on what exactly is going on and what the right fix is in this case? Am I better off just waiting for a kernel patch?

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