[ltp] the fan of ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th starts quite often lately

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hi,

On Apr/11/2020, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>> "CPiE" == Carles Pina i Estany <carles at pina.cat> writes:
> 
>    > Hi,
> 
>    > On Apr/11/2020, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>    >> >>> "LF" == Luca Fornasari <luca.fornasari at gmail.com> writes:
>    >> 
>    >> > Uwe,
>    >> > Have you considered the idea of changing the thermal paste between the processor and the fan?
>    >> > Trust me ... there is no culprit in the OS ... it's the thermal paste.
>    >> 
>    >> Oops, you mean a hardware problem. That is really bad, because in the
> 
>    > I wouldn't completely rule out a software problem.
> 
>    > Easy way: when it gets hot execute "top" and see if any process is using
>    > 100% of the CPU (%CPU is the name of the column). I had occasions that
>    > some software (a daemon, a web tab, etc.) used all the CPU making the
>    > processor hot.
> 
> Aha, right I forgot about top.
> 
> That is interesting, seamonkey is the king eats almost 60% of my CPU
> next comes zoom,

ha! Zoom does this to me as well... only when I'm on a video-call.

> I closed both now I am fine. No fan.

hurray!

Cheers,

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Carles Pina i Estany