Re: CPU fan working more than it should

[George <pinkisntwell@gmail.com>]

On 1/7/10, George <pinkisntwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/10, Arthur Machlas <arthur.machlas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George <pinkisntwell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is
>>> working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that
>>> Debian changed the temperature threshold. How can I change it back?
>>
>>
>> My guess is that you haven't enabled frequency scaling, so your cpu is
>> running at full throttle non-stop.
>>
>
> Performance Monitor says it isn't. But what's frequency scaling?

I just noticed that a process named "events/0" is taking up between
10-14%. Is that normal? It's annoying.