Re: Running cool and silent

2015-05-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Rustom Mody writes: > Does someone know what it does? [Dont remember where I found it] One more comment: run Intel's Powertop to see what else you can do to improve power management on your laptop. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Running cool and silent

2015-05-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Rustom Mody writes: > For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and > silent in Windows-8 > > Running > > $ echo "min_power" | sudo 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

Re: Running cool and silent

2015-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > $ echo "min_power" | sudo tee > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy > > makes the fan slow/stop. > > But I am not sure what it does!! My guess is it lowers the clock speed. To bring this into the realm of Python, here's so

Re: Running cool and silent

2015-05-12 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 3:03:53 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom 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" | sudo tee > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/link_power_management_policy > > makes the fan slow/stop