Re: Fan speed going up and down?
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:47:03AM -0500, christopher marlow wrote:
I have installed F20 Mate for the first time and have been using it
for 2 or 3 days now, and when opening Firefox the fan picks up speed
and gets faster, slower, faster, slow. But it seems like when I close
FF the fan goes back to a normal lower speed? Why is that? Is this
normal?
That sounds like it is doing the right thing. When the CPU is doing
intensive things (opening Firefox counts), it produces a lot of heat, and
the fan automatically spins up to get rid of it. When the workload
decreases, so does the waste heat, and therefore, no fan.
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