Hello Mike: You might have missed this. Earlier in the thread, she said Apple Spell was using a high per centage, and resetting it temporarily made the issue stop. Carolyn On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
> You might check the process manager, see if something is running that is > using all of your processor's resources. In particular, stuck print jobs can > do this. > On Jun 28, 2011, at 6:20 AM, johns.kary wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I've got a strange problem hear, and I'm really hoping it's software not >> hard ware. >> >> A couple of days ago my Mac book pro started running hot, the fan would >> kick in a short time after start up, and would pretty much run constantly >> from there until I shut down again. >> Now, it's the middle of winter hear in Australia, so the temperature hardly >> get's above 20 Celsius, Even with the heater going my lounge-room is >> definitely not hot enough to up set the MBP. >> I checked all the usual culprits, Things I'd forgotten to remove from the >> finder, apps running in the background, ect, no deal it still happened. >> >> I ran a permissions repair, worked for about a day, then started all over >> again. >> >> So I went deeper and had a look at the activity monitor. >> Most things are running at 0.0 or or not much higher, except for one. >> Something called "applespell.service" was varying between 84 and 99%. >> I quit it, and it went back to 0.0 and my MBP immediately started cooling >> down. A short while later it started heating up again and the fan cut in >> and remained on again. I went back and checked, and sure enough >> applespell.service" was running at 99%. Once again I quit, and things >> cooled down again. It's been running at 0.0 for a bit over an hour now, >> the Mac is a lot cooler, and the fan hasn't kicked in once. So I'm assuming >> I've found my problem. The thing is it seams to be reoccurring frequently. >> Does anyone have any idea what's going on hear? Do you guys think I've found >> the problem, or am I completely off the mark? >> >> I'd really like to fix this my self, not only for the satisfaction, but my >> nearest apple store is an hour and a half away, and finding transport for >> that long a trip can be tricky at best. :). >> >> Thanks in advance for any thoughts-help. >> >> A very! frustrated, >> Kari. >> Ps all software is up to date. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
