From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G14aj-0003Tn-Jl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:03:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6DH0elN031781; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:00:40 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6DGpuU8009175 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:51:57 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o63so209931nfa for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:51:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Aj5izV6vsKUEoPS0+GLMWg56wiMoMuczsj+p06ECw5tpZ75WQROspuFo8kSeCZebp4/Oc18cY840HqZ91MYDlRQXitlIYLbg378B7ITT2rkJrj+L6T0pPYDzOix/mgVWVyEf7jlm4czjbSaey730eTsXLsS22VUjUFrUaQ5hRQQ= Received: by 10.78.139.5 with SMTP id m5mr894829hud; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.16.7 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607130951n896250bm5f0918860ab9c975@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:51:56 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP In-Reply-To: <20060713112027.6ddfbfa1@mating-tux.renatik.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44B5FA65.8040401@bigpond.net.au> <20060713112027.6ddfbfa1@mating-tux.renatik.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 669dc123829ccc9d X-Archives-Salt: bdc2f563-02dd-42a7-9838-4035dadd2ce2 X-Archives-Hash: 3ebb14587ca2b7881ee24afc010e32ce On 7/13/06, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > You have to configure your system to scale down the CPU frequency when > idle. Read this Howto: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3 Btw, I recommend the simplest approach: 1. Build your kernel with the 'ondemand' governor and intel speedstep support. 2. Merge cpufrequtils 3. Set GOVERNOR=ondemand in /etc/conf.d/cpufrequtils 4. rc-update -a cpufrequtils -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list