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I have a PC I want to run over night with qBittorrent. The question is how to throttle down consumption to the bare minimum to minimize cpu heating, fan noise and power consumption. I'm running a KDE, so part of the question is how demamding a DE such as this is and if running without X would be better (and if so, how do I boot without X).
How do I temporarily run Arch in only the bare mimimum for downloading with qBittorrent? How do I throttle cpu down when it's not needed (maybe a gpu too, but that's not really used I guess)
$ uname -roms && cat /proc/cpuinfo && lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
Linux 4.0.7-2-ARCH x86_64 GNU/Linux
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm ida dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bugs :
bogomips : 5056.90
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm ida dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bugs :
bogomips : 5056.90
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G94M [GeForce 9800M GS] [10de:062b] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7220]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at feb80000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiathanks in advance
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Why not get a cheap passive device, something like a RaspberryPi? You don't have to run X on it, just the torrents.
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It actually crossed my mind, but getting another device (albeit as cheap as Pi) is imho still not worth it if it's just for torrents.
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It actually crossed my mind, but getting another device (albeit as cheap as Pi) is imho still not worth it if it's just for torrents.
I would strongly disagree with that. I run low-power devices/machines for stuff that needs to run 24/7.
And keep my energyhungry high-performance system shutdown or in suspend-to-ram to cut my energy usage.
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