Comment 78 for bug 453444

for all unhappy people who reinstalled their loved operating system only because of this bug:

there exists a very simple temporal solution!!!

1) stop rsyslog service (#service rsyslog stop)
2) (backup and) delete all huge files in /var/log
3) copy the file 10-temperature.conf attached in the post #57
4) start rsyslog service (#service rsyslog start)

what is going on:

The effect of this bug is so serious that there is no time to wait for a fix in the kernel. But it is easy to configure the syslog to discard all unwanted messages, i.e. messages containing "Temperature/speed normal" and "Temperature above threshold". This is what the file 10-temperature.conf is all about. When the fix will be released, just delete this file and reload the service rsyslog. I am using this fix few weeks and I haven't noticed another unwanted messages.