Laptop getting hot
David Cuthbert
dacut at kanga.org
Mon Dec 29 18:00:29 PST 2003
YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
I'm not sure what's going on... it should be in a halted state most
of the time (i.e. 'hlt' instruction), unless there is something cpu
bound running.
Speaking of 'hlt' instruction, if I revert the revision 1.22 of
sys/kern/lwkt_thread.c, the temperature stays low.
Hm... I observe something similar under VMWare: most OSes are fairly
well behaved when idle (Windows, Linux), but DF is not and wants to
consume as much CPU as I can feed it.
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