Re: Running cool and silent

Rusi Mody wrote: > For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and > silent in Windows-8 looks like powermanagement to me. what does cpufreq-info says example analyzing CPU 3: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 3 CPUs which need to

Re: Running cool and silent

On Tue, May 12, 2015, at 08:44, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:35:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > # echo "min_power" | tee > > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy > > > > So is this command safe? It varies. We do not enable it by default because it is known

Re: Running cool and silent

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:35:45AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and > silent in Windows-8 > > Running > > # echo "min_power" | tee > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy > > makes the fan slow/stop. > > But I a

Running cool and silent

For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and silent in Windows-8 Running # echo "min_power" | tee /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy makes the fan slow/stop. But I am not sure what it does!! [I dont want my laptop fried and its rather HOT out here