Re: Running cool and silent
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:35:45AM -0700, Rusi 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" | 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 want my laptop fried and its rather HOT out here right now :-) ]
>
> So is this command safe?
> Does someone know what it does? [Dont remember where I found it]
This command turns on power conservation for your disks. It's
probably a good thing in a laptop.
You should see if installing fancontrol (and subsequently
running pwmconfig to set it up) helps as well.
You can survey power usage in general by installing powertop.
-dsr-
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