Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-31 Thread David C. Rankin
On 7/30/24 9:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: My expensive dishwasher-safe keyboard Note to all -- check before ever attempting and never use in a high-heat dishwasher or with caustic dishwashing powder (which is increasingly hard to avoid since boxed powder has gone away in favor of pod-type soaps

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 11:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > But powertop --auto-tune worked wonders, and very quickly. > > Others should be careful as this can stop things working, e.g. the USB > mouse and keyboard can auto-suspend and not resume. A re-plug fixes. Off-topic Hi, FWIW in my lim

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Dan, > But powertop --auto-tune worked wonders, and very quickly. Others should be careful as this can stop things working, e.g. the USB mouse and keyboard can auto-suspend and not resume. A re-plug fixes. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-30 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2024-07-27 at 10:14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Powertop would be useful. > Though it takes a bit of study to understand the tabs of readings, and > can lead to searching for answers elsewhere for what's shown rather > than giving an obvious answe

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-27 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2024-07-27 at 10:14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Powertop would be useful. > Though it takes a bit of study to understand the tabs of readings, and > can lead to searching for answers elsewhere for what's shown rather than > giving an obvious answe

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-27 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2024-07-27 at 08:56:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2024-07-27 at 08:41 +0300, İsmail Arılık wrote: > > Did you check which service were using how much resource? > > My understanding is, that the machine is idle, quasi no resources are > used at all. FWIW I'm on an tower PC with an In

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-27 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2024-07-27 at 02:53:14 -0500, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 7/27/24 12:41 AM, İsmail Arılık wrote: > > > grep '^processor\|^cpu MHz' /proc/cpuinfo > > > > processor       : 0 > > cpu MHz         : 400.000 > > processor       : 1 > > cpu MHz         : 400.000 > > processor       : 2 > > cpu M

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, David wrote: > You have 12 cores at dead-idle (400MHz) and 8 cores at 1400MHz or > less. A slightly longer pipeline will summarise a bit. awk '/^cpu MHz/ {print int($4 / 10) * 10}' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -V | uniq -c Running something similar on the OP's output gives an example:

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-27 Thread David C. Rankin
On 7/27/24 12:41 AM, İsmail Arılık wrote: > grep '^processor\|^cpu MHz' /proc/cpuinfo processor       : 0 cpu MHz         : 400.000 processor       : 1 cpu MHz         : 400.000 processor       : 2 cpu MHz         : 400.000 processor       : 3 cpu MHz         : 400.000 processor       : 4 cpu M

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-07-27 at 08:41 +0300, İsmail Arılık wrote: > Did you check which service were using how much resource? My understanding is, that the machine is idle, quasi no resources are used at all. FWIW I'm on an tower PC with an Intel Model 6.191.5 "13th Gen Intel Core i3-13100". Nowadays you c

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-26 Thread İsmail Arılık
Did you check which service were using how much resource? 27 Tem 2024 Cmt 07:10 tarihinde <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> şunu yazdı: > On 2024-07-26 at 17:59:15 -0500, > "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > > On 7/26/24 8:38 AM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: > > > I would include logs

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-26 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2024-07-26 at 17:59:15 -0500, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 7/26/24 8:38 AM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: > > I would include logs and version numbers, but I'm not sure where to > > start. :-) > > > > I checked the BBS, but I didn't immediately't see anything related. > > > > A

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-26 Thread David C. Rankin
On 7/26/24 8:38 AM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: I would include logs and version numbers, but I'm not sure where to start. :-) I checked the BBS, but I didn't immediately't see anything related. Any ideas? A guess, First - what model laptop/CPU? I ask because if I recall

Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-26 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
Greetings, Lately (the past week or two?), my laptop has been running much hotter than usual, as experienced by my lap and reported by conky and sensors, even after a reboot and before I start X11, and when just idling. Previously, it had been running around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius. Now, it's m