Re: Fan control ?

["Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@delfi-konsult.com>]

> top - 14:25:43 up 17:31,  5 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.06
> Tasks: 180 total,   1 running, 179 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  3.9%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,   
> 0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   1033084k total,   986920k used,    46164k free,    14912k  
> buffers
> Swap:  1380344k total,      120k used,  1380224k free,   555276k  
> cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2378 nse       20   0 24480  16m 5652 S  3.2  1.7   3:16.28 Xvnc4
> 17406 nse       20   0  3300 1424 1108 R  1.9  0.1   0:01.54 top
>  2382 nse       20   0 13476 5272 2936 S  0.6  0.5   0:07.04 xterm
>  2387 nse       20   0 23248  11m 7992 S  0.6  1.1   4:56.72 lxpanel
>  3434 root      20   0 23356 6796 4656 S  0.6  0.7   1:10.40 Xorg
>  3484 gdm       20   0 31684  17m 9.9m S  0.6  1.7   2:41.80  
> gdmgreeter
this is pretty standard.....

"ps -AH" for any of those.. brings just about the entire proces-stack  
back.....

Den 07/09/2009 kl. 14.15 skrev Shawn H Corey:

> Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
>
> > No .. it is not hot...... warm.. yes!.. but more like "warm as in  
> > working..." ... but hot no!
> > > If so, then the question is what is the machine doing that its CPU  
> > > is running all the time?
> > hmmm.... "something" is obviously running that causes this... but  
> > what exactly... and I tried .. just for the heck of it...
> > to reboot the Tibook.. and see if that would shutdown the fan...  
> > but no!... the fan was/is on all the time..... during reboot even!
> > > If not, then what process turned on the fan and forgot to turn it  
> > > off?
> > exactly! but how to tell ?
>
> Actually, I was asking those questions hoping to narrow down what  
> was happening.
>
> To find out which process is using the most CPU time, run `top`.   
> (To quit, press 'q'.)  Once you get its process id (pid), run `ps - 
> AH` to see if its dependent on anything.
>
> On the other hand, if it's running because it was forgotten, I would  
> look at the power management processes.
>
>
> --
> Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
>  Shawn
>
> Programming is as much about organization and communication
> as it is about coding.
>
> I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your
> thingy.

kind regards

nse

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