For some reason Fedora and Ubuntu use a lot more power than windows
xp and win7.
Both my daughters laptops suffer enormous battery drain and run
quite hot running linux systems in comparison to windows.
Puzzling!
Roger
Dear all,
I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to
start dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of
the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my system
runs under XP. Now I want to know why.
On F16, my system will sometimes have the fans running at
medium-high speed even while idling and just Epiphany running
(for Gmail and FB chat...this does not to my knowledge generate
anything else but sporadic cpu bursts and occasional I/O). The
HDD becomes unreasonably hot (despite iotop not reporting
significant disc activity apart from syslog and some
Gnome-specific daemons), and the CPU (Core2Duo) and VGA (Intel
HD4500) also seem to be running needlessly hot.
Does anyone know of a good way to debug exactly what is
causing my system to idle in this way? Obviously something
somewhere is causing my hardware to idle in a very wrong way,
and it would be helpful to nail down just what the cause is.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
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