F14: high temperatures after coming back from hibernate

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Thu Nov 4 14:51:15 UTC 2010


Thanks, Christoph!

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:16:50 -0500 Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 04.11.2010, 07:40 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have noticed a strange problem after I come back from hibernate and
> > upgrade in F14 on my Thinkpad T61. The temperatures are off the charts,
> > hitting as high as 95C, and staying there, soon after waking up. The
> > laptop has become unusable, basically. Here is the output of top: the
> > topmost processes. Note that the laptop has 4 GB of memory,
> > 
> >  1751 maitra    20   0  422m 2232  964 R 99.7  0.1  22:05.74 pulseaudio 
> 
> Hmm, pulseaudio at nearly 100% CPU?

Yes, that worries me too. No sound is on, except the fan groaning!

> 
> >    23 root      20   0     0    0    0 D  3.0  0.0   0:23.59 kacpi_notify      
> >  1729 maitra    20   0 39612 1732 1052 S  3.0  0.0   1:09.27 gWoof
> 
> What is gWoof? Just curious...

gWoof is my C program (new mail notifier), uses gtk and tells me when I
get mail in specific folders. That way, claws-mail does not need to be
running to get notified. It is a harmless program.

> 
> >  1615 root      20   0  169m  28m 7272 S  1.0  0.7   4:38.52 X                 
> >    22 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0   0:03.28 kacpid            
> >  1977 maitra    20   0  816m  20m 2456 S  0.7  0.5   0:25.15 gmixer
> 
> I don't think gmixer is that bad, but I wonder if pulseaudio also goes
> to 100% if gmixer is not running.

I see.

> 
> > I am using the F14 LXDE spin. I believe that the problem may have
> > happened also towards the last week of F13, however I had not connected
> > the correlation with hibernate at that time. 
> 
> I doubt the problem is specific to LXDE, but I suggest to first debug it
> a little here and file bugs or move the discussion to the Fedora user's
> list when we have sufficient data.

I posted it in both lists, but only I seem to be having these problems!

Best wishes,
Ranjan


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