For some reason Fedora and Ubuntu use a lot more power than windows xp
and win7.
Both my daughters laptops suffer enormous battery drain and run quite
hot running linux systems in comparison to windows.
Puzzling!
Roger
Dear all,
I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start
dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things I
noticed rather fast was how much cooler my system runs under XP. Now I
want to know why.
On F16, my system will sometimes have the fans running at medium-high
speed even while idling and just Epiphany running (for Gmail and FB
chat...this does not to my knowledge generate anything else but
sporadic cpu bursts and occasional I/O). The HDD becomes unreasonably
hot (despite iotop not reporting significant disc activity apart from
syslog and some Gnome-specific daemons), and the CPU (Core2Duo) and
VGA (Intel HD4500) also seem to be running needlessly hot.
Does anyone know of a good way to debug exactly what is causing my
system to idle in this way? Obviously something somewhere is causing
my hardware to idle in a very wrong way, and it would be helpful to
nail down just what the cause is.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
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