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Re: Running cool and silent

From Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Running cool and silent
Date 2015-05-19 12:14 +0300
Organization An impatient and LOUD arachnid
Message-ID <vg3twv90vzw.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> (permalink)
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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> For some reason my Dell laptop runs hot and noisy in linux but cool and
> silent in Windows-8
>
> Running
>
> $ echo "min_power" | sudo 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 :-) ]

That just turns on the power management on your SATA links. Goggle SATA
ALPM if you like. It's perfectly safe.

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Running cool and silent Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-12 02:33 -0700
  Re: Running cool and silent Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-12 02:34 -0700
  Re: Running cool and silent Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-05-12 08:16 -0500
  Re: Running cool and silent Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-05-19 12:14 +0300
  Re: Running cool and silent Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-05-19 12:16 +0300

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