Re: Powerbook G4 getting very hot. Solution?
On 18/07/2003 at 09:58, Pander wrote:
> at power-save speed it doesn't produce as much heat as in full-speed
> mode. I've written this 'deamon' to control it.
My iBook also becomes quite hot after some time of use in this season.
In my case, the responsible is the hard disk. I use this daemon:
http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/cpudyn/
that sets powersave/performance modes dynamically (I do not notice any
performance degradation, it works quite well).
It also puts the disk in standby mode after a preset number of seconds
without activity. You have to tune a little bit your daemons so that
they do not make innecessary disk reads(*) too often (wich for me was
the case of postfix, before switching to exim).
In conjunction with laptop-mode (available in 2.4.21-ben*), it results
in quite long periods of time with the disk not spinning at all.
(*) If you use this laptop-mode, disk writes are not "too harmful" in
this case, because they are delayed.
All in all, the improvement in the temperature is quite noticeable.
--
Kiko
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