[ltp] OT: Lenovo Return Policy Advice

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:19:54 +0000


Marcin Trybus wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 
>> Hm, I hear a high-pitched whine from my T61 when it's on battery power.
>> Restricting the CPU to the C2 power-saving state stops the whine.
> 
> My T23 whines while under load decoding flash videos (eg. YouTube).
> I can't put my finger on why. I don't think it's related though. ;-)
> 

Trivial workaround:

  nice -n 19 yes > /dev/null

will keep the CPU usage at 100%, without harming other applications' use
of the CPU. This is probably the easiest test.