Erness Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > Erness Wild wrote: >> I was wondering why my laptop cpu heats up so much >> and seems to be working a lot (fan goes on and then goes >> to highest working speed) when: >> I'm only reading a text page in the browser that has no >> advertising or flash on the page. >> >> then I found this blurb searching around for an answer: >> >> Software is the primary factor which determines CPU and GPU usage, since >> software essentially controls these hardware devices. As such, using >> software which constantly loads the CPU will cause any computer to heat >> up more then it would at idle. >> >> So the only software I launched when this happens is seamonkey, even >> when I set it to offline as I'm reading a page. >> >> I'm wondering if there is any "spin code" in seamonkey. >> >> > I'm replying to my own post, update: > > I don't think it's seamonkey causing the increased cpu usage. > if I launch seamonkey without an internet connection then this > doesn't happen. Seems to be the wifi doing it even when I have > no software open and the computer not running anything. If I > disconnect from the internet then the computer cools down and the > cpu fan shuts off.
To know what program causes this, start the "task manager". Available via right-clock on the Windows taskbar. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
