In connection with this, people might like to buy the system monitor from The IconFactory ( http://iconfactory.com/software/ipulse ). I've used it for years and it's brilliant. A quick key press and it creates a floating gauge which you can mouseover to show all sorts of useful information. With iPulse you would have seen your 99% CPU usage the moment it began.
No connection, just a happy customer as they say ;-) Stephen On 7 Apr 2009, at 21:43, Nicholas Holt wrote: > > I have answered my own question and others may be interested to know > what the problem was. > Activity Monitor showed that I had a Print job monitor hogging 99% of > the CPU. > I managed to force quit in Activity monitor and hey presto the fan has > stopped. > Nick > > On 7 Apr 2009, at 08:53, Nicholas Holt wrote: > >> >> Ever since spending an age online yesterday trying to fill in a form >> to get an Indian visa my Macbook fan has been going full pelt after >> switching on for only a few minutes. >> Have reset the SMC but to no avail. >> Repaired permissions >> Emptied cache >> 10.5.6 >> Its 29 months old and so far been fault free. >> Any thoughts gratefully received. >> Nick >> >> >>> > > > > > It's hard to get a man to understand something when his income depends on him not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
