Fedora causes laptop to overheat
Roger
arelem at bigpond.com
Mon Dec 12 01:56:33 UTC 2011
For some reason Fedora and Ubuntu use a lot more power than windows xp
and win7.
Both my daughters laptops suffer enormous battery drain and run quite
hot running linux systems in comparison to windows.
Puzzling!
Roger
> Dear all,
>
> I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start
> dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things I
> noticed rather fast was how much cooler my system runs under XP. Now I
> want to know why.
>
> On F16, my system will sometimes have the fans running at medium-high
> speed even while idling and just Epiphany running (for Gmail and FB
> chat...this does not to my knowledge generate anything else but
> sporadic cpu bursts and occasional I/O). The HDD becomes unreasonably
> hot (despite iotop not reporting significant disc activity apart from
> syslog and some Gnome-specific daemons), and the CPU (Core2Duo) and
> VGA (Intel HD4500) also seem to be running needlessly hot.
>
> Does anyone know of a good way to debug exactly what is causing my
> system to idle in this way? Obviously something somewhere is causing
> my hardware to idle in a very wrong way, and it would be helpful to
> nail down just what the cause is.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chris
>
>
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