Laptop fans don't stop anymore

[Miles Lane]

On 3/7/06, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> Mark Roach wrote:
> > I'm running dapper, and I've noticed lately that my laptop no longer
> > ever gets quiet. Sleep mode has never worked on this system, but it used
> > to be that if I wasn't running anything cpu intensive, and I closed the
> > lid, eventually the fans would shut down, and the system would stay
> > cool. Now it is always hot, and the fans are always running.
> >
> > According to the CPU scaling monitor, the CPU is getting scaled down to
> > the 530 Mhz (the lowest). I don't think my hard drive is spinning down
> > though. I used to run noflushd to make that happen, but it conflicts
> > with the new laptop-mode stuff. I've got all my partitions mounted with
> > "noatime" this used to work. Any suggestions?
> >
>
> Something doesn't make sense: Box is hot, fans are running, and you want the
> fans to... stop?
>
> I am guessing the real problem is the unit is just slowing down, but not going
> to sleep.

Run "top" to see which process is chewing up your CPU cycles (my bet
is that it is gam_server, which seems to have a habit of doing this).