Hi Julian, > I left my mac on after using it for over an hour or so. I like to leave my > computer on because I know how turning it on and off is hard on a computer. > Anyways, when I wasn't using it, the fan seemed go full blast. I glanced > at the system monitor and the cpu seem to go to 100% without me doing > anything on the computer (besides running system monitor of course.) It > then shutdown a few seconds after that.
This sounds like a scheduled task running. I am not sure what the system monitor reports (have not used it). Does it report a task running? One way to check is, from a shell window, type 'top'. This command shows a list of active tasks and what percentage of cpu and memory they consume (this is a standard unix command, also available in OS/X). Some system housekeeping tasks do use a fair amount of cpu for a short while. Once we know which task is running and using the cpu heavily we can say more about it. One old but useful description of unix scheduled tasks is: <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-autotasks.html> I hope this is more helpful. -- Stephen Harker [email protected] PEMS u...@adfa _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
