I seem to recall that some (if not all) of the Unix(TM) variants did the 
correct thing in their idle loops to actually idle the processor, thus use 
less power; whereas Windoze didn't.  I may be wrong on this but you can 
check out VCool at http://vcool.occludo.net/ for more information or as a 
starting point to get more info.

I haven't used VCool but my nephew reported a significant temperature 
decrease (several degrees C) after using it.


At 02:26 PM 5/16/2002 +0100, Shyam Kumar Mangayil wrote:

>I have a multi-boot machine using a AMD-K6 processor.
>
>Perhaps , once a week  , this processor starts hanging - creating grains
>
>in the middle of the display - seems to be a case of over-heating.With 
>this syndrome ,
>
>the OS (NB : While this happens , I am invariably on Windoze , while the 
>Unixen do not
>
>have any problem with the processor at the same given point of time.The 
>Unixen I am talking about
>
>are Linux , et al. In fact these Unixes seem to rather solve the problem 
>for Windoze ! )
>
>I will tell you what lead me to this conclusion : when Windoze gets a 
>beating from AMD , I re-booted to one or the other of the Unixes , and 
>found them fine. Now when I re-booted to Windoze , after seeing that the 
>Unixes are OK , on 2 occassions , I found that Windoze was OK.
>
>Can somebody please guide me on this grudge that AMD K6 seems to have for 
>Windoze ?
>
>Regards,
>
>Shyam
>
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