Re: Is this a BUG?

[Andreas Bombe]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:33:19PM +0000, gus wrote:
> Well, it sounds strange but if I boot my machine into my 2.2.16 kernel,
> login into console, execute 'top' to see system idle 99.8%, then cpu temperature
> keeps growing and growing as if I'd be recompiling kernel now and then.
> But if I get into an X session (e.g. KDE), and stay doing nothing again,
> then cpu temperature inmediatly starts going down to get to it's normal
> operation temperature in 5 minutes or so.
> And, if I turn again into console mode, then temperature starts growing quickly again.

Are you using framebuffer or text console?  Especially the VESA
framebuffer could need a bit more CPU while redrawing top and generally
be not very CPU friendly.  Also the APM power saving halt may only be
entered after a timeout of nothing to do, which may happen under X but
not under console.  Depends on the driver access pattern, I guess.

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