Hi James
thanks very much indeed for this description of the Activity
Monitor...I have been transfixed by this app!! Just watching the %cpu
use while doing nothing is amazing, with just mail, firefox and the
Monitor on. Firefox alternates with the Monitor and by going to the
'Network' button there is a constant stream of 'packets/sec' coming
in!!?? Thats a worry! This reduces to 0 when I turn the modem off!!
Surprise surprise chris!
For others who may want to know, regarding the fans, I spoke with
Nick Krane at Joondalup and he suggested to me both resetting the
pram ( I did, with no difference) and then shutting down and
completely removing the power cord for a few minutes. That was 2
hours ago and the fans are back to normal!!! He said it resets the
pmu or smu or something??
Thanks for your input James
kind regards
chris
On 18/03/2006, at 1:13 PM, James Devenish wrote:
Hi Chris,
I don't know specifically about any changes to the tolerances. The G5s
have many sensors, but I guess you won't have a recorded history to
peruse. There is also no utility bundles with Mac OS X for viewing you
sensor readings :-(
However, you could use Activity Monitor (Mac HD > Utilities > Activity
Monitor) to see if there are any "highly active" programmes running in
the background of your computer.
To do this, open Activity Montior and you should see a list of
"Processes". Choose "All Processes" as the filter, then sort on the "%
CPU" column. The items near the top of the list may offer clues.
However, it is really something that you must compare against
"normal", and "normal" can be different for each person (depending on
peripherals, software, Internet, etc). You can expect "kernel_task"
and "Activity Monitor" to appear near the top of your process lists
because you are using them to generate the process list. If, on the
other hand, you saw "Acme Printer Driver: 80% CPU", then you'd guess
something was amiss.
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