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#1 2006-06-02 08:40:05
- idjut
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My usually quiet centrino laptop wont stop the fan
I used to love how quiet my computer was running arch with fluxbox, but now for no apparent reason the fan just goes off and doesnt stop until I reboot. Quitting x doesnt help and I dont understand from ps aux what it is that should take so much cpu. Cpu is now alternating from 99% to 100% and I run fluxbox, gkrellm, gaim and opera. It wasnt like this in gnome on ubuntu with several more heavy apps up.
Machine is ecs g553, 1,6 ghz, 256 ddrr-ram.
Here is the output of ps aux:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.2 1476 540 ? S 04:38 0:00 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [migration/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 04:38 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [events/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [khelper]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [kthread]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [kblockd/0]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [kacpid]
root 139 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [pdflush]
root 140 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [pdflush]
root 142 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [aio/0]
root 141 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [kswapd0]
root 217 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [kseriod]
root 262 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [kpsmoused]
root 933 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [ata/0]
root 1102 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [jfsIO]
root 1103 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [jfsCommit]
root 1104 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [jfsSync]
root 1111 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [xfslogd/0]
root 1112 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [xfsdatad/0]
root 1120 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [kjournald]
root 1172 0.0 0.1 1544 452 ? S<s 04:38 0:00 /sbin/udevd --d
root 1797 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [khubd]
root 2098 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [kIrDAd]
root 2121 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 04:38 0:00 [kgameportd]
root 2267 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [khpsbpkt]
root 2550 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [pccardd]
root 2551 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [knodemgrd_0]
root 2983 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 04:38 0:00 [shpchpd_event]
root 3754 0.0 0.2 1996 688 ? Ss 04:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslo
root 3770 0.0 0.0 1488 208 ? Ss 04:38 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -t
root 3784 0.0 0.2 1508 540 ? S 04:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond
root 3788 0.0 0.4 2136 1064 tty1 Ss 04:38 0:00 /bin/login --
root 3790 0.0 0.2 1468 500 tty3 Ss+ 04:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38
root 3791 0.0 0.2 1468 500 tty4 Ss+ 04:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38
root 3792 0.0 0.2 1468 500 tty5 Ss+ 04:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38
root 3793 0.0 0.2 1472 504 tty6 Ss+ 04:38 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38
idjut 3804 0.0 0.7 3548 1760 tty1 S 04:45 0:00 -bash
root 4085 0.0 0.2 1472 504 tty2 Ss+ 05:32 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38
idjut 4203 98.9 0.5 3520 1480 ? Rs 06:05 270:12 alsamixer
idjut 4358 0.0 0.5 3364 1368 tty1 S+ 10:29 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bi
idjut 4374 0.0 0.2 2464 692 tty1 S+ 10:29 0:00 xinit /home/idj
root 4375 0.5 9.1 54192 22548 tty7 S<s+ 10:29 0:02 X :0 -auth /hom
idjut 4379 0.0 2.1 8744 5296 tty1 S 10:29 0:00 fluxbox
idjut 4381 0.8 13.3 94116 33072 ? Ss 10:30 0:04 /usr/lib/opera/
idjut 4393 0.1 6.3 51000 15744 ? Ss 10:30 0:00 gaim
idjut 4397 0.0 3.5 24056 8796 ? Ss 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1
idjut 4400 0.0 0.3 4140 888 ? Ss 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1
idjut 4401 0.0 1.5 21232 3944 ? Ssl 10:30 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1
idjut 4404 0.2 3.7 16868 9288 ? Ss 10:30 0:01 gkrellm
idjut 4411 0.0 0.6 3608 1516 ? Ss 10:37 0:00 aterm -name ate
idjut 4412 0.0 0.6 3544 1688 pts/0 Ss+ 10:37 0:00 bash
idjut 4415 1.2 0.9 7360 2332 ? Rs 10:38 0:00 mlterm
idjut 4416 0.3 0.6 3544 1688 pts/1 Ss 10:38 0:00 bash
idjut 4417 0.0 0.3 2576 980 pts/1 R+ 10:38 0:00 ps auxLinux user #403491
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." - E. A. Poe from Eleonora
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#2 2006-06-02 08:59:15
- JGC
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Re: My usually quiet centrino laptop wont stop the fan
idjut 4203 98.9 0.5 3520 1480 ? Rs 06:05 270:12 alsamixer
Somehow you have a runaway alsamixer. Kill it 
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#3 2006-06-02 09:13:52
- idjut
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Re: My usually quiet centrino laptop wont stop the fan
Ahh, excellent! The silence, the silence!! Now I noticed the cpu meter in ps aux.. Handy.
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"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." - E. A. Poe from Eleonora
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#4 2006-06-02 12:17:46
- codemac
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Re: My usually quiet centrino laptop wont stop the fan
pacman -S htopA nice app that .. well, it'll get to the bottom of things faster than grepping ps output and is more usable than top.
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#5 2006-06-04 19:16:52
- idjut
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Re: My usually quiet centrino laptop wont stop the fan
htop is a great tip! long live cli
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"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." - E. A. Poe from Eleonora
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#6 2006-06-04 21:30:51
- elasticdog
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Re: My usually quiet centrino laptop wont stop the fan
htop is a great tip! long live cli
Indeed! Very cool application...I've never liked top much, but htop makes things much easier.
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