On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:21:38 -0800 Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> dijo:
>On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan ><joh...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> Something is eating my CPUs, but top and the GUI are lying to me. I >> need suggestions for other ways to find the culprit. >> > >This might do the trick. > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ I installed powertop, but the features don't work. For example, it says to disable the unused wireless with "ifconfig wlan0 down," so I do so, tell powertop to refresh, and it still says to disable unused wireless. Ditto for all its other recommendations. >It could still be a problem with your video drivers. Video chips can >heat up things quite quickly and if you have it running a laptop >monitor and an external monitor it will heat up even quicker. Does it >still think you have an external monitor for some reason? That sounds suspicious. I don't recall exactly when the hot computer syndrome first appeared, but it was after my presentation on December 2. However, both the GUI and xrandr tell me that the only monitor is the laptop monitor. At the moment I have both CPUs throttled to 800 MHz with the Gnome panel widgets. But Gnome System Manager says one is running at 100% and the other at 80%. Yet the computer remains cool. And top says that top is taking 95-100% and everything else is taking a total of not more than 10%. Who is lying? Note to other comments: It can't be dust bunnies or a failing fan because neither would cause the CPUs to run at close to the max all the time. The only thing that can make the CPUs run intensively is a running process. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
