On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 21:13 +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
Recently for the past couple of months I have been noticing that when I start firefox my system fans go mad and CPU temp rises significantly by at least 5Celcius.
I've noticed this too. I haven't yet understood why it happens. I'll keep an eye out for FF. Here's what I have:
[asinha@ankur-laptop ~]$ sudo x86info -m x86info v1.30. Dave Jones 2001-2011 Feedback to davej@redhat.com.
Found 4 identical CPUs Extended Family: 0 Extended Model: 2 Family: 6 Model: 37 Stepping: 5 Type: 0 (Original OEM) CPU Model (x86info's best guess): Core i7 (Nehalem) [Clarkdale/Arrandale] Processor name string (BIOS programmed): Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz
Performance MSRs: MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS: 0x15 MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE: 0x850089 [Enabled: TCC PerfMon EnhancedSpeedStep ]
Thermal MSRs: MSR_PM_THERM2_CTL: 0x0 [Thermal monitor: 1] MSR_IA32_THERM_CONTROL: 0x0 [Software-controlled clock disabled (full speed)] MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS: 0x88240000
Total processor threads: 4 This system has 1 dual-core processor with hyper-threading (2 threads per core) running at an estimated 2.65GHz --
Did anyone try this for power saving?
http://thunderbirdtrr.blogspot.in/2013/06/fedora-power-tweak-suggestion-for-...