Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:29:13AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:41:27PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> said on Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:59 -0400:
> > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:31:33PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If the only process running is the idle process, doing hlt()
> > > > instructions in a loop, then there are bugger all transistors doing
> > > > anything, so less power gets consumed.
> > > >
> > > > AFAIK, all modern i386 (AMD, Intel, etc) CPUs at least have a htl()
> > > > instruction.
> > >
> > > I run a dual-boot Debian/Windows ME system. It overheats when running
> > > Windows, but not when running Debian. Ny tech told me that's because
> > > Windows ME idles in a wait loop, but Linux uses a halt instruction.
> >
> > Jeez, I thought they had fixed that by 98SE or so. Must not have...
>
> Well, to be fair, my computer runs hotter playing video games in Linux
> than it does in XP, and it's not getting higher framerates.
>
> Many times when it's hot in the room and XP will be just below the
> threshold with the CPU fan turned all the way up, similar tasks in Linux
> will require the box fan.
>
> Obviously this is because the Linux kernel is using the processor more
> intensively. As we see in the case of Windows ME burning through a wait
> loop, that doesn't necessarily mean it's getting more work done.
>
> The extra heat Linux seems to generate makes me suspect the kernel is
> less efficient. It doesn't perform higher i/o or more work.
>
Do you have frequency scaling on your cpu? if so windows will activate
it by default if you are not fully loading you cpu, linux requires
appropriate daemons to do that.
>
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