you do realize your videocards fan(s) speed up to keep the video card cool under a heavier load, right? blocking your video card fan(s) from increasing speed is a great way to burnout the video card, and or the motherboard. it's simply disturbing to me that someone doesn't realize that.

The way I read it, Ondoho doesn't block the fan, he limits the process activity so that the fan never needs to get going in the first place. Did you honestly think that he was unaware of why fans exist?

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^ thanks hydrurga.
no, i do not mess about with fans.
cpulimit slows the process down so much that the cpu doesn't get hot.

sometimes i really miss that downvote button...

@hydurga EITHER way @ondoho is wrong. why the bleep limit what your system can do? since before the core2duo's by intel came out cpus were designed to shutdown the system if they get too hot, so no need to limit their performance via software just to keep them from getting too hot.

The heat isn't the issue. The operation that ondoho carries out appears to be intensive and repetitive, repeatedly firing up the fan every few minutes, thus creating unnecessary noise (some folk don't worry about fan noise, other folk prefer to have a noiseless computer). All he is doing is making the system run that particular operation more slowly, less CPU-intensively, to avoid hitting the limit that fires up the fan. It's no biggie and quite a clever solution to the problem, imo.

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Without intent, one can ONLY speculate.

Noiseless has a few options these days. Lots of CPUs are passively cooled, at least on the low power end of things. My HP stream 11s were very silent and much appreciated, and died at young ages (< 2 years). Other options of having cases open and using a room fan to provide adequate air flow without a lot of tiny fans screaming at you. Which I did long ago when the PSU fan died. A walmart fan was $10, a new PSU was $40. Which route depends on factors, like pets or kids. And intent, like saving $30 versus buying something "again" that might have the same problem in a relatively short time.

Cpulimit works great for me. I use this: cpulimit --pid=6109 --limit=75 on my machine which cuts the useage in half. I'm not a Linux wizard so this is the best for me. Thanks!

Hello and welcome to LQ smokeydan.

I almost added to this old thread.

I apologize for responding to such a dated thread--I just wanted to thank those that helped greatly with my Linux experience.

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No problem.