On Friday 28 March 2003 13:15, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > Fredag den 28. marts 2003 12:26 skrev Joerg Johannes: > > Hi List > > > > I'm running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my laptop, but the near 100% CPU usage results > > in my processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use the CPU at no more than, say 30%? > > I have already set it to nice 19, but this affects only the priority, so > > that an other process can take over the CPU more easily, this does not > > reduce CPU load. > > I asked for something like this on lkml a while ago. Have a look at: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.3/0606.html > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.3/0745.html
AArgh. This means kernel patching... fiddling around... uargh. (I'm not afraid of patching and compiling kernels, but on this particular machine I had at least ten(!) tries until it worked as I wanted it to. Maybe I will try it out when I feel masochistic one day, thanks for the pointer. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
