Hi,
I notice my Thinkpad's palm rest gets quite warm when using Firefox (especially watching Youtube),
but just barely warm when playing the videos in VLC.
For example...
(1) playing a 720p Firefox Youtube video for 5 minutes...CPU temp exceed 60 deg and fan automatically enabled.
(2) playing same 720p video (downloaded) on VLC for 5 minutes...CPU temp never exceed 53 deg.
Is it possibly because my 4GB Thinkpad 440P does not have enough RAM?
Below is my "top" while Firefox is running.
Is the first Firefox process using 3.121 Gigabytes RAM?
And second using 2.797 Gigabytes of RAM?
There're also 3 more Firefox processes, all showing over 2 Gigs of memory usuage.
Is this why my palmrest gets warm whenever I run firefox for more than 10 minutes?
I notice my Thinkpad's palm rest gets quite warm when using Firefox (especially watching Youtube),
but just barely warm when playing the videos in VLC.
For example...
(1) playing a 720p Firefox Youtube video for 5 minutes...CPU temp exceed 60 deg and fan automatically enabled.
(2) playing same 720p video (downloaded) on VLC for 5 minutes...CPU temp never exceed 53 deg.
Is it possibly because my 4GB Thinkpad 440P does not have enough RAM?
Below is my "top" while Firefox is running.
Is the first Firefox process using 3.121 Gigabytes RAM?
And second using 2.797 Gigabytes of RAM?
There're also 3 more Firefox processes, all showing over 2 Gigs of memory usuage.
Is this why my palmrest gets warm whenever I run firefox for more than 10 minutes?
Code:
last pid: 40157; load averages: 0.39, 0.56, 0.48 up 0+02:02:18 00:57:16
19 processes: 1 running, 18 sleeping
CPU: 7.6% user, 0.0% nice, 1.1% system, 0.3% interrupt, 91.1% idle
Mem: 800M Active, 499M Inact, 9972K Laundry, 564M Wired, 365M Buf, 1762M Free
Swap: 3657M Total, 3657M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
80536 tpt12 41 21 0 3121M 653M select 1 3:05 27.25% firefox
78916 tpt12 58 20 0 2797M 428M select 1 1:31 16.55% firefox
33578 tpt12 3 20 0 95M 65M select 1 1:58 0.39% Xorg
10111 tpt12 1 20 0 20M 10M select 1 0:03 0.00% st
79470 tpt12 24 20 0 2428M 186M select 1 0:01 0.00% firefox
34846 tpt12 1 20 0 35M 12M select 2 0:01 0.00% dwm
43787 tpt12 4 20 0 43M 17M select 0 0:01 0.00% dunst
80010 tpt12 21 20 0 2391M 151M select 0 0:01 0.00% firefox
80576 tpt12 16 20 0 2373M 138M select 2 0:00 0.00% firefox
35002 tpt12 1 25 0 12M 3128K wait 1 0:00 0.00% sh
10165 tpt12 1 20 0 12M 3528K wait 1 0:00 0.00% sh
43167 tpt12 1 20 0 12M 3652K select 0 0:00 0.00% dbus-daemon
26214 tpt12 1 20 0 12M 3240K wait 3 0:00 0.00% sh
28931 tpt12 1 52 0 11M 2980K wait 1 0:00 0.00% sh
78058 tpt12 1 20 0 11M 3184K wait 3 0:00 0.00% sh
33006 tpt12 1 28 0 13M 3244K wait 2 0:00 0.00% xinit
40157 tpt12 1 20 0 13M 3380K CPU2 2 0:00 0.00% top
37107 tpt12 1 25 0 10M 2212K nanslp 3 0:00 0.00% sleep
42763 tpt12 1 52 0 14M 4452K select 0 0:00 0.00% dbus-launch