Mike Chalmers wrote:
On 12/12/06, Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
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Of course it's a hardware problem. I haven't said otherwise.
I'd just like to find out what this "random" piece of software is. If we find that xinetd or X or clockapplet is consuming 94.6% of his
See below.
CPU, is this not something worth knowing? OTOH, if we find that he is running GIMPS, well, we know that's going to heat up his system, and we can all forget about it.
Then he needs to clean out his case. If that doesn't work, then he just has a marginal design, which is not uncommon.
Yes, the problem was caused by hardware. I cleaned out my computer, and it was pretty bad. Besides the cooling the hardware is good. I am waiting on some new hardware also, cpu fan and power supply, case fans and a new case. That should fix this problem.
The question is why doesn't it do this on Windows when I run cpu intensive apps. I believe in Windows that it was close to overheating though.
Well, that I dunno. However, to find out (and to beat a very dead horse) run top.
And, I am sorry for missing the fact that some had already identified the software which is CPU intensive. I apologize for the oversight.
Mike