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 am not sure what it does!! > [I dont want my laptop fried and its rather HOT out here right now :-) ] > > So is this command safe? > Does someone know what it does? [Dont remember where I found it]
This command turns on power conservation for your disks. It's probably a good thing in a laptop. You should see if installing fancontrol (and subsequently running pwmconfig to set it up) helps as well. You can survey power usage in general by installing powertop. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150512114430.gi23...@randomstring.org
