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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:15:35 +0000 > David Bell wrote: > >> On Thursday 22 January 2009 20:51, Rob Beard wrote: >> >>> What CPU is it? >> >> It's an Athlon XP 1800+ >> >>> Are you running KDE now as well? >> >> It makes no difference - Gnome, Kde and X .... >> >> Thanks everyone for the various thoughts on the subject. I'll >> re-install Xubuntu plus LXDE. > > Giving up so soon? Are you not curious what's causing the issue in the > first place? (It'd drive me nuts not knowing... even if it turns out > to be something that I have neither the inclination nor capability to > change, I'd still want to know what it was). I've recently bought/installed a few Atom systems - one thing I noticed with certian kernel options is that the acpi daemon runs at 100%. And with the atom being multi-cored+hyperthreaded, you might not notice it... (The ones I have are dual-core too). Removing some of the power saving options in the kernel compile fixed it.... However I wasn't measuring power consumption at the time. If you google for acpid 100% there are plenty of hits. One thing I did find out about the atom - it's not the cpu that sucks the juice, but the northbridge chip - the motherboard I have have a fan - but it's not on the cpu! That runs cool.... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html