Sean Bruno wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 07:05 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
Sean Bruno wrote:
I have been noticing that my D800 laptop has been running hot(temp)
since I installed FC4.
Investigating a bit, I noted that I was pretty much always running at a
load of about 1. The cpu-freq applet seems to take a quite a bit of
horse power. This was confirmed when I shut it off and my box cooled
off quite a bit.
My computer always comes up at full frequency. I let it load programs
initially and when things that I use are up, I change the frequency via
the applet to 662 MHz vs. the max of 1.52 GHz.
If you left click (or tap) the mouse around the applet, you can select a
lower frequency from the applet choices.
I would not guess it is the applet, but something determining the best
frequency for the computer load.
Jim
My laptop seems to scale correctly, that is to say it bumps the
frequency accordingly when the load goes up or down. The issue I am
seeing is that the applet itself seems to eat up quite a bit more
horsepower that I would expect.
When my box comes up, it runs at a load of 1 with the cpu-freq applet
running. If I deactivate it, the load goes down to almost nothing.
Is this what you are seeing? Can you check out my findings?
Sean
I'll remove the applet from the panel to see if this effects the cpu
frequency. I am on a desktop currently and not the laptop. This
comparison I'll do tomorrow.
For the normal operation of the laptop, I start in runlevel 3. The fan
does not run while I am in the terminal. The fan does seem to engage
once I startx. The applet displays max frequency. I need to manually
select a lower frequency or the laptop gets on the hot side. I do not
see scaling. I used to see scaling depending on the load.
I'll check the cpufrequency before starting the GUI and pass on the
results. I run acpi and it has worked properly from the Severn test
days. With the hit for speeding up everything, I assumed this was an
intended change to maximize everything.
JIm
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