Quoth Manu Hack: > The fan is working (I can tell as it's very noisy when I'm running > programs) and it's on a wood table. Will look into the CPU throttling > stuff later.
Throttling the CPU would have the same effect as your idea of throttling programs not to use all available CPU cycles - except that you would have the added benefit of longer battery life due to reduced power consumption of the CPU. All modern laptop CPUs support some sort of scaling. You don't even need additional software under linux, because the functionality is right there in the kernel. Try lsmod | grep powersave If it's not modprobed, add cpufreq-powersave to /etc/modules, modprobe the module (or reboot...) and then as root do echo "powersave" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor And maybe put that line in some initscript so you'll end up with a throttled CPU no matter what happens. Aleks
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