Heinz Diehl said the following on 22/07/2010 8:16 AM:
On 21.07.2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
When I start Firefox with a few widows and about 60 tabs my laptop overheats and does a thermal shutdown. [....]
Just let it run again, open your 60 tabs and monitor your systems load with e.g. "top -d 1", and you'll quickly find out what runs ypur system into max heat.
Not practical that way round as the shutdown happens before all the tabs open ... But BTDT having started 'top' beforehand, and having a temp monitor. That's how I determined it was FF.
However, a stable machine should be assembled in such way that it can handle max load without getting overheated. It could also be both software problems (Firefox, high load) and hardware problems (Is the fan working? Has the cooling element gotten slightly dislocated over time?...)
Indeed. The fact this happened to coincide with the recent heat wave is ... suspicious. The fans blow and the laptop sits on a 3-fan cooling pad. I wonder if 81 degrees is a bit low but I have no way of seeing how/where that was set. /a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org