Yesterday, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Peter Cavender wrote:
> > part, the CPU, and the heat it generates don't care if they are cracking
> > encryption, or just running around in a scheduler that has nothing to do.
> > With the sole exception of systems that have power management and can go
> > into a low power idle mode, CPU power should be relatively constant.
>
> Incorrect. Please reference Derek Martin's previous post in this thread,
> where he mentions how Linux idles the CPU when it is not busy, and my previous
> post, where I talk about how I've witnessed this first-hand with temperature
> probes.
Wasn't me! But I do know that Linux does idle the CPU on architectures
that will do it (doesn't just about everything do that now?)
--
Derek Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
**********************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
unsubscribe gnhlug
**********************************************************
