[DM-MUG] Leopard runs hotter?

[Roses Derise]

This is what I get from activity monitor:

kernal task 3.9
activity monitor 2.
temperature monitor 1.5
pm. tool 1.3
window server  1.?
Entourage .8
office notifications .5
dock .2
database demon .1
system server .1

Everything else is at zero. These aren't high are they? Yet the fan runs
continuously.

Roses


On 11/3/07 12:36 PM, "Darcy Baston" <darcybaston at mac.com> wrote:

> Run Activity Monitor, sort the list by cpu %, and see if there's
> something running that you're not aware of.
> 
> Darcy
> 
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Roses Derise wrote:
> 
>> After getting our feedback, I re-plugged in the external hard drive
>> and left
>> it on all night so I could test it again. When I opened it up in this
>> morning about 8:30, the computer was cool to touch but the fan started
>> running immediately, a sound which is to me like fingernails on
>> chalkboards,
>> and which I had solved on Tiger with the aid of an air desk and smc
>> fan
>> control. The heat would still get bad and the fan would come on when
>> the
>> computer heated up after a long day of working and/or gaming or
>> loading up a
>> big program or had a lot of programs open at the same time. Other
>> than those
>> times the heat was acceptable and the fan was blessedly silent.
>> 
>> This morning, I let it run for a while to see if it was just a
>> waking/warming up thing but the fan didn't shut off so about a half-
>> hour
>> later I unplugged the external hard drive to shut off time machine.
>> Even so,
>> the fan has continued to run continuously for the last nearly three
>> hours,
>> which says that the fan/heat is not from Time Machine, so I was
>> wrong on
>> that.  I have no open programs except Microsoft Word and Entourage
>> The temp
>> is at 145 degrees and the temp record since I got Leopard is overall
>> higher
>> so the only thing I can conclude is that Leopard runs hotter.
>> 
>> I then went to Apple on-line support for Leopard and found others were
>> complaining of the same issue--heat and noise. If any of you have
>> any fixes
>> for this, I (and presumably those at the apple support place (key
>> words
>> leopard runs hot) would really appreciate it. Otherwise, I plan to
>> uninstall
>> it and go back to Tiger.
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