Re: Why do CPUs run hotter...?

mc wrote:
If you have the possibility compare the heating of CPU under different OS's, running comparable activities, I noticed it years ago when started using Linux which IS a Unix clone and as such multiuser/multitasking system.
As it has to accomodate "users" by switching between various applications it uses the "halt" command inherent in CPU's which IS not used by MS-Glassware systems although the NT series supposedly are Unix based.
So there IS a diff in heating of the system just depended how it is managed.


Windows is multiuser too. Are you sure Windows does not use HALT in its idle loop?

Windows is not exactly UNIX based, although it is certainly in the same broad class.


Check your info. When in the '80s the "New Technology" (NT) was announced for some strange reason it was castrated of the main security Unix-like design where the admin and users have separate classes of permissions to protect the system in broad sense of multiuser activity.
Since then the tangent increased and the similarity is sci-fi.
What I know for fact is, on booting Linux kernel checks the response of the CPU to "halt" command and writes this info in log. file.
Check this condition in NT as I am NOT using this kind.
Let me know.

Have fun

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

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