Overheating Laptop

[NoOp]

On 06/14/2008 09:20 AM, Keith Clark wrote:

>> 
> Nope, I just tried an experiment and loaded Windows XP.  No issues, the
> fan slows right down and run quietly.  Under Linux it is always at full
> blast.
> 
> I have no issues with another laptop running Linux so I assume that it
> is a hardware driver that is just not working.
> 
> My laptop has even gone to a crawl.  My cpu is running at 1 GHz and I
> cannot turn off the cpu throttler in Services.  Something is very, very
> wrong here.  I start Services and it just errors out.
> Keith
> 
> 
> 

I'd be willing to bet that if you open a terminal and run:

top -d1

you'll find that it is Tracker doing its indexing. You can either
uninstall Tracker, or turn off indexing: System|Preferences|Search and
Indexing|Indexing Options and then untick "Enable Indexing" etc. You can
also adjust performance etc., if you want to keep indexing on.