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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This is a common "problem" with power management routines when they are set for power saving: tasks with the lowest priority level (like WCG applications) are simply ignored, which does not seem illogical from a power saving viewpoint.
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As soon as I began reading this thread, I realized it was a classic description of laptop cooling by power management. Since laptops do not have good cooling, running more than 2 cores in one usually demands supplementary cooling or low CPU frequencies. If you do not own the laptop, you should let it do whatever it needs to do in order to stay cool.
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Recently Active Project Badges:
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If you do not own the laptop, you should let it do whatever it needs to do in order to stay cool. Well, actually, as anhhai has said that it's a work computer provided by IBM, I'd personally try to get as much use out of it as possible. Back in the day's when I was working for IBM, I did have a Thinkpad (can't just remember the model number), where the fan eventually gave up the ghost, but it was soon fixed by DSIS (IBM's internal Desk Side Support team).Now, if it was a machine provided by another employer/his own, then that would be a totally different matter...  |
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