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[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

`What, he's talking *again?*' :]

For the Windows operating systems, there are some wonderful applications
called Rain and Waterfall.  They are produced by the same vendor, and work
on (basically) the same concept.  Rain is free, even though it is the most
agressive of the two.

Rain, IIRC, watches the processor, and when the CPU isn't otherwise busy, it
sends the HLT instruction, which cools the CPU by keeping it from wasting
electricity.  Under Win98SE, I've seen my system go from ~129f under normal
load to ~91 degrees with Rain turned on, same level of activity.

Does anyone know of a similar application for Linux, or do I just need to
put a bug in the developers' ears about this?  I bet that something like
this ideally be running at system start, and would probably be
best-implemented as a kernel module.  Whaddaya' think, folks?


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Jon Pennington         | SuSE Linux 6.2      -o)
super-suser@xxxxxxxxxx | Kernel 2.2.10       /\\
Kansas City, Missouri  | AMD K6-III 450     _\_V

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