KGet, CPU and temperature

Willy Hamra w.hamra1987 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 00:10:10 UTC 2009


2009/3/12 O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com>:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> O. Sinclair wrote:
>>
>>> Using Hardy 8.04.2 on a Dell laptop.
>>>
>>> Just a note that I have several times noted that KGet can raise the CPU
>>> temperature to dangerous levels EVEN WHEN no download or activity is
>>> taking place. I just noted it again, shut down KGet (that was just
>>> residing in tasktray) and the CPU temperature has gone down 20 Celsius.
>>>
>>> Don't ask me why, I have not analysed it or filed a bug or even asked
>>> some list or developer why - I have just noted the phenomena several
>>> times.
>>
>> I'd suggest that no application should be capable of raising the CPU
>> temperature to dangerous levels unless your ACPI thermal settings are
>> broken.  You really need to look into that.  (on my last laptop, I found I
>> always had to unplug/replug the power after resuming from hibernate,
>> otherwise the ACPI sensor always reported 0 degrees C, and of course the
>> fans didn't come on).
> Maybe I overstated it when I wrote "dangerous" levels. Nevertheless -
> that a single, nonactive, application does raise the temperature by 20 C
> is strange and most unnecessary. I will look for where to file a bug.
>
i actually remember this very same behaviour from kget when i used
hardy, and i posted about it here in the list. kget used to kill my
CPU even when idle

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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.




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