Laptop overheating with F 16

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 19:44:55 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 10:02 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> Yeah the argument can always be made that it is a HW issue. In this
> case, running under windows I run into no thermal issues. As well,
> running under F 15 created no thermal issues.

Well, it's unlikely your system is running at 100% CPU use in either of
those cases: the HW issue is that your hardware can't cope with running
under 100% CPU load for very long. But if tracker is thrashing your CPU
more than it should be, that's definitely a tracker issue.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net



More information about the test mailing list