> Before going hard(ware) way, I would like to try first > all possible software solutions. What I tried up to now is > cpufreqd, CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, and spindown. In addition to that > I adjusted fan-speeds to a little lower values and turned > off some unneeded peripherials (in bios). > > Is there anything else I could do? Any tips would be greatly > welcomed...
Does you cpu support a technique like speed stepping? Then try setting the scaling governor to ondemand % modprobe acpi_cpufreq % echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor This may be working betten than using coufreqd? Or maybe you could lower the cpu and ram voltage in bios? But this can cause an unstable system.
