Re: Fan runs constantly on (Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi ) Please help me.

[Tom Horsley]

>  My laptop's fan works almost constantly in Fedora 8.
>  
>  I've made some search and found this topic: 
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=330917 
If this is a new fedora 8 install, the pcscd service is on by default
and the pcscd daemon is busted and runs constantly sucking up as much
cpu as it can get. Perhaps it is the culprit, heating up the cpu and
making the fan need to run?

SOLVED!!! Re: Fan runs constantly on (Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi ) Please help me.

[Tom Horsley]

>  The problem is solved mate ^_^ I just stopper this service and fan
>  started to behave like always. 
Good to know I guessed  right :-).

>  One more little question (if you don't mind)).
>  
>  1) How can I see my CPU usage and processes load? I mean something like Task Manager in
> XP,
>     when you know exactly which process loads your CPU.
>     I've tried SuperKaramba monitors, but only thing I can see out there
>     is the CPU load. 
The traditional linux tool is "top" (run it in a terminal window).
There are other things like the gnome-system-monitor applet you can
add to the panel in gnome sessions (and probably something similar
for kde as well), but the applets tend to just show summary info,
which top you can see which specific processes are hitting the
system.

>  2) Is it normal to see 38% - 40% of CPU usage when I do nothing with
> my
>     laptop? If this is to high, so I need to turn off some other
>     (useless)processes too? 
Sounds high to me. Just sitting here typing this, my cpu usage
occasionally hits 4% (but this is a desktop, don't know what is
normal for laptops). There are also a lot of things that run
periodically to check for updates, make the "whatis" database,
things like that, so one or more of those may be running.

SOLVED!!! Re: Fan runs constantly on (Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi ) Please help me.

[Robert Locke]

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 15:58 +0200, bravo_elf wrote:
<snip>
>  1) How can I see my CPU usage and processes load? I mean something
> like Task Manager in XP,
>     when you know exactly which process loads your CPU.
>     I've tried SuperKaramba monitors, but only thing I can see out there
>     is the CPU load.
>   
There are a couple of utilities.  If you are running Gnome a your
desktop, take a look at "gnome-system-monitor".  I do not use KDE, but
there used to be a program called kpm.  Otherwise, you can try "top"
from a text console.

>  2) Is it normal to see 38% - 40% of CPU usage when I do nothing with
> my
>     laptop? If this is to high, so I need to turn off some other
>     (useless)processes too? 
38-40% on an idle system is certainly high.  But perhaps there are some
cron.daily scripts running in the background.  Also, yum-updatesd likes
to do things in the background.  But, the above mentioned utilities
should allow you to narrow down the names of the processes that are
utilizing your CPU....

HTH,

--Rob

SOLVED!!! Re: Fan runs constantly on (Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi ) Please help me.

[Ivan Evstegeneev]

Hello Tom,

Saturday, December 1, 2007, 1:01:46 PM, you wrote:

>  On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:28:27 +0200
>  bravo_elf <bravo.elf(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: 
> > Hello Tom,
> > 
> > Friday, November 30, 2007, 8:24:59 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> > >> My laptop's fan works almost constantly in Fedora 8.
> > >> 
> > >> I've made some search and found this topic: 
> > >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=330917
> > 
> > > If this is a new fedora 8 install, the pcscd service is on by default
> > > and the pcscd daemon is busted and runs constantly sucking up as much
> > > cpu as it can get. Perhaps it is the culprit, heating up the cpu and
> > > making the fan need to run?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So only thing I need to do is to turn it off?
> > How? 
>  As root run: /etc/init.d/pcscd stop 
>  That will turn it off temporarily and you can see if the fan stops
>  after things cool down. 
>  To permanently turn it off run (also as root): 
>  chkconfig --level 2345 pcscd off 
> > How will it affect on my system? I mean not only the fan, perhaps
> it
> > turns off some other of hardware? 
>  The pcscd service has something to do with smart card readers.
>  Unless you have a smart card reader, you won't need it running.
>  (There are bunches of other services you probably don't need
>  as well, all taking up memory and cycles). 
>  To see all the services do: chkconfig --list
>  To get hints about what they do: rpm -q -i -f /etc/init.d/<servicename> 

The problem is solved mate ^_^ I just stopper this service and fan
started to behave like always.
One more little question (if you don't mind)).

1) How can I see my CPU usage and processes load? I mean something like Task Manager in
XP,
   when you know exactly which process loads your CPU.
   I've tried SuperKaramba monitors, but only thing I can see out there
   is the CPU load.

2) Is it normal to see 38% - 40% of CPU usage when I do nothing with my
   laptop? If this is to high, so I need to turn off some other
   (useless)processes too?

   Thanks a lot for your help.


   P.S. I'm starting to love Fedora more and more considering the
        simplicity of solving the problems which it has. ^_^ And
        people which always ready to guide you.


-- 
Best regards,Ivan                            mailto:[e-mail]

Fan runs constantly on (Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi ) Please help me.

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:28:27 +0200
bravo_elf <bravo.elf(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello Tom,
>  
>  Friday, November 30, 2007, 8:24:59 PM, you wrote:
>  
>  >> My laptop's fan works almost constantly in Fedora 8.
>  >> 
>  >> I've made some search and found this topic: 
>  >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=330917
>  
>  > If this is a new fedora 8 install, the pcscd service is on by default
>  > and the pcscd daemon is busted and runs constantly sucking up as much
>  > cpu as it can get. Perhaps it is the culprit, heating up the cpu and
>  > making the fan need to run?
>  
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  So only thing I need to do is to turn it off?
>  How? 
As root run: /etc/init.d/pcscd stop

That will turn it off temporarily and you can see if the fan stops
after things cool down.

To permanently turn it off run (also as root):

chkconfig --level 2345 pcscd off

>  How will it affect on my system? I mean not only the fan, perhaps it
>  turns off some other of hardware? 
The pcscd service has something to do with smart card readers.
Unless you have a smart card reader, you won't need it running.
(There are bunches of other services you probably don't need
as well, all taking up memory and cycles).

To see all the services do: chkconfig --list
To get hints about what they do: rpm -q -i -f /etc/init.d/<servicename>

Re[2]: Fan runs constantly on (Acer TravelMate 4602WLMi ) Please help me.

[Ivan Evstegeneev]

Hello Tom,

Friday, November 30, 2007, 8:24:59 PM, you wrote:

> > My laptop's fan works almost constantly in Fedora 8.
> > 
> > I've made some search and found this topic: 
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=330917 
>  If this is a new fedora 8 install, the pcscd service is on by
> default
>  and the pcscd daemon is busted and runs constantly sucking up as much
>  cpu as it can get. Perhaps it is the culprit, heating up the cpu and
>  making the fan need to run? 

Hi,

So only thing I need to do is to turn it off?
How?
How will it affect on my system? I mean not only the fan, perhaps it
turns off some other of hardware?

-- 
Best regards,
 bravo_elf                            mailto:[e-mail]