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Cpu fan always running and the air is too hot
My laptop is a
Dell Inspiron 14R 5420
Video cards: IntelHD Graphics 4000 and NVIDIA Geforce GT 630M
Currently running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS dual boot with Preinstalled Windows 8 system.
After ...
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Very High CPU usage on HP dv7 Laptop when IDLE
I'm pretty new to Linux computing. So I finally thought of giving Ubuntu a try, by dualbooting it with Windows 8 on my hp dv7-6006tx laptop. Laptop Specs
But after installation, I immediately ...
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CPU high temperature 12.10 while high CPU usage
I have a problem with high temperature of processor while running applications that use all 8 cores of processor with load of close to 100% during the all running time. And the running time for those ...
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cpu fan always working and the air is hot
My laptop is a Dell N5110, i3, two video cards: Intel HD3000 and Nvidia GT323M.
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04.
After I login in the system, the fan starts working non-stop, the fan air is hot ...
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Intel CPU whine
Since I installed ubuntu 12.04 I started hearing cpu whine again. It's really loud and annoying. I tried setting max_cstate to 2, didn't help. On windows I remember muting the microphone - that fixed ...
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Is 100% CPU usage harmful while update-apt-xapi runs?
(System: 11.10 running Unity 3D)
When update-apt-xapi is running, CPU usage stays at 100% (for about a couple of minutes). Is that normal?
I understand that the command runs update-apt-xapian-index ...
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What happened to sched_mc_power_savings
My laptop's battery performance is awful. I can get about an hour and a half out of it, so I've been looking for some ways to boost the power efficiency of my laptop.
I saw the tip to enable this:
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