Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Tomasz Rojek" Subject: Re: XEmacs and hot laptops Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:44:33 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <4042DDE9 DOT 6080503 AT luukku DOT com> X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rou20907t-atm6-0-15.eranet.pl X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 > Most of laptops I've seen have fixed speed fans, that are turned on when > heat exceeds some predefined limit, and for some reasons on some laptops > fan just runs "for sure" once a while. > > Mine laptop is set as high as 70 celcius CPU temp, so well, it get's > hot, specially from under (Yes, you can burn your balls if your not > careful =) > > Force lower clockspeed. Can be done on Intel speedstep, or AMD's > equivalent thingy. Of course, things takes twice as longer, but hey, no > more heat. > > Laptops are designed to run on higher heats, so no concern of frying. I can confirm Jani's words - my 3 years old Lifebook calculates SETI work units all the time, so the fan never gets stopped :-) BTW: I use cygwin to proccess a 100 work units queue without any additional software like SetiQueue or similar one. -- Greetings Tomasz Rojek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/