alt Hacker NewsYou probably wanted a low thread priority/QoS setting. The OS knows how to run threads such that they don't heat up the CPU. Well, on modern hardware it does anyway.
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rswail • last Monday at 11:35 AM
The OP did say this was circa 2010. So we're talking 15 years ago.
I’d expect any os worth it’s name to run threads in a way that minimizes total energy not fan noise.