Power Management on Laptops

[Larry Hartman]

On Monday 21 April 2008 09:55:33 am mauricio trujillo wrote:
> I'm having kindda the same problem here. It began when I installed my
> printer's driver (Canon IP2200). Once it was installed there was a process
> that used all the CPU making the fan go crazy, I figured that out with the
> * top* command. Maybe its not your case, but go ahead a look which
> processes are running when your fan begins to work very hard.
>
> On 4/14/08, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2008/4/14 Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at vzavenue.net>:
> > > On Sunday 13 April 2008 11:18:18 pm Willy Hamra wrote:
> > >  > i cant help you with sanity checks :P, but as for the hibernate
> >
> > issue,
> >
> > >  > it used to happen with me, do you have enough swap? you need to make
> > >  > sure your RAM ro at least what is used of it fits in the swap
> > >
> > >  2 GB swap 2GB physical RAM, I can't imagine that not being enough...
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I think you need a swap partition or swap file at least as big as your
> > RAM + Video RAM.
> > Perhaps some other can confirm that?
> >
> > / Jonas
> >
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I uninstalled all power mgt tools and reinstalled after extensive search to 
make sure I had the correct ones....this cut the fan spin-up back quite a 
bit.