On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 00:01 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:21:38 -0800 > Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> dijo: > > >On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan > ><joh...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > >> > >> Something is eating my CPUs, but top and the GUI are lying to me. I > >> need suggestions for other ways to find the culprit. > >> > > > >This might do the trick. > > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ > > I installed powertop, but the features don't work. For example, it says > to disable the unused wireless with "ifconfig wlan0 down," so I do so, > tell powertop to refresh, and it still says to disable unused wireless. > Ditto for all its other recommendations.
There are apparently special issues w/r/t Thinkpad fans and Linux, ref http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_10.04_%28Lucid_Lynx% 29_on_a_ThinkPad_Z61m If I understand correctly, there were problems with fan control on older thinkpads, which led to fans being reset to run too fast, leading to noise complaints about fans on some Ubuntu installations on T series laptops. On Ubuntu, there are some fan control packages associated with Thinkpads. I found them with the following command: apt-cache search thinkpad This is just from memory, as I'm a bit intense within RHEL 6 at the moment. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
