Charles Hedrick wrote: > 2009.6 101a > > It's a small Acer. It's a sealed unit that is small enough that I doubt there > is a separate fan for the motherboard. The fan is fairly loud. Under Windows > 7, Resource Monitor shows both the CPU use and what speed it's running at. > Whenever the CPU goes over 1/2 the speed goes up and the fans get loud. I can > deal with that when I'm working, but I'd like them to go idle when I am not > doing anything. > > I'd even be willing to disable one of the processors manuallly when I'm not > working, but I get the impression that the disable command just turns off > interrupts rather than actually stopping the processor. > Sorry if I missed it already. But have you provided "kstat cpu_info" output?
Thanks, Mark