while watching flash streams cpu fan makes noise and heats too much

Luis Paulo luis.barbas at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 18:53:30 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 17:23, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 1 December 2010 16:23, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is this normal or I need to check some thing?
>>
>
> It's pretty normal for the proprietary flash plugin to eat up a lot of
> CPU time, yes. For a poorly cooled machine this can be problematic.
>
> Al.

Specially if I see the video in full screen
Probably as expected, if so just to state the obvious, maybe the OP
does that too.

A support with fans for the laptop may minimize the heat.
As said, a laptop cleaning/revision/changing the laptop fan may help.




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