[ltp] HD temperature on a T41p ?

Don Perley linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:17:34 -0500


François Fleuret wrote:

> Any idea ? I was away from the PC between 14:00 and 15:45 and could
> not find any application ran at 13:45 which could be responsible for
> that. All I had running were firefox and emacs.

My guess is something on a schedule.  Possibilities include scanning for 
the "slocate" database (on by default in some distro's with typically 
daily scan), or defragging.

See if it happens the same time every day, and run top or other program 
to show busy processes.

I found firefox (any browser I guess) will make the CPU run hotter if 
left on some page with a busy flash or java program.