Sounds like a very good tip. It had never happened to me before. Nick On 8 Apr 2009, at 11:34, [email protected] wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
